Biosphere Labs publishes field notes, experiments and working tools from AI-assisted software development, agentic engineering and agentic software factories. Underneath it is one open question: whether a very small number of minds, directing many agents, can now build better, faster and cheaper than a large team that has to coordinate. The writing follows real builds to find out, including the ones that fail.
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Essays
For twenty years the safe way to change a large system has been one piece at a time. Agents change the arithmetic behind that advice. What the published evidence shows so far, and what it doesn't.
Published · 9 min read
Essays
At some point in the past I worked as a systems architect on a system that had started life as a Delphi desktop client talking straight to a
Published · 29 min read
Tutorials
I have a skill file that writes illustrated blog articles. Under Claude Code it behaves beautifully: it researches the topic, drafts prose in my voice, generates images, checks
Published · 20 min read
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