How Product Development Processes Should Change in the Age of AI Agents

How Product Development Processes Should Change in the Age of AI Agents#

2026-05-10

Product development with AI agents and harnesses

Work processes inside companies are changing quickly as AI agents enter daily operations. The company I work at is a technology-driven advertising operations company, broadly divided into an advertising operations organization and a product development organization.

The advertising operations organization manages advertising campaigns on behalf of clients. Recently, this group moved toward a GitHub-based workflow where advertising guidelines, skills, and brand data are organized as projects, and operators work conversationally with AI agents such as Claude Code or Hermes. This transition was accepted relatively naturally.

Why Do Coding Agents All Design Alike? — Research and Decisions Behind Choosing a Design Stack

Why Do Coding Agents All Design Alike? — Research and Decisions Behind Choosing a Design Stack#

2026-07-03

Coding agent design stack

Ask a coding agent like Claude Code to design a web service and you get a reasonably decent result. Yet something feels off. The designs look vaguely familiar, similar to one another, and slightly unpolished in the details. While producing design drafts for an ongoing project, I went looking for ways to fix this, surveyed the available skills, MCP servers, and harness guidelines one by one, and settled on a final design stack. This essay documents that research and the decisions behind it.

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