> As of writing this, I have not seen anyone describe a process that "scales" agent-driven development in a large company. There is, however, evidence from the past that it is possible. I would point to Microsoft in the 1990s, which did not have mandated review-before-commit practices. <...>. This is regarded as "old-fashioned" "cowboy" style development <...>. But it did work. It created some of Microsoft's most long-lived successful products, like the win32 API.
> Little appears to be written about this period of Microsoft history, if you were there I would love to hear or read about your experiences.
I, too, would love to hear about this. And which projects (including the win32 API) were actually the result of no code review. Also, what the (observed) prerequisites were for this to work.
> As of writing this, I have not seen anyone describe a process that "scales" agent-driven development in a large company. There is, however, evidence from the past that it is possible. I would point to Microsoft in the 1990s, which did not have mandated review-before-commit practices. <...>. This is regarded as "old-fashioned" "cowboy" style development <...>. But it did work. It created some of Microsoft's most long-lived successful products, like the win32 API.
> Little appears to be written about this period of Microsoft history, if you were there I would love to hear or read about your experiences.
I, too, would love to hear about this. And which projects (including the win32 API) were actually the result of no code review. Also, what the (observed) prerequisites were for this to work.
Doesn't Showstopper go into this a little bit? Been a while since I read it.