Engineer insights
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An agent has full authority inside a step and none to move work across the line between two steps. This post walks the three doors where that authority stops, including the consequence bar that keeps an agent from filing every problem it can imagine.
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In one week, one A-CX engineer closed 204 issues and merged 152 pull requests, with most of that week spent planning the work and unattended runs doing the execution. This post walks what the planning has to contain, the isolation that lets agents run in parallel, and the two gates…
In this follow-up, Mikko Peltola lays out A-CX’s five-step approach to PM for AI-driven projects: Deliver Brief, Deliver Spec, Deliver Plan, Deliver Code, and Deliver Deployment. He explains why the industry has solved the spec-to-code problem but not the client-to-spec step, and what happens when AI is left to guess…
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AI-driven development has compressed build timelines from months to days, and product management has to move earlier to keep pace. Mikko Peltola argues that AI does not remove the need for structured requirements work, it just relocates where that work happens. He explains why reactive PM no longer survives a…
How A-CX turns a client’s real need into merged code: verified plans, an agile backlog agents execute against, and a human who owns the outcome.
Coding agents write a convincing first draft, not finished code. These are the coding agents best practices that keep engineering teams in control: verify every response, own the docs the agent generates, trace the logic before pushing, and never ship code you have not read.
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A-CX explores how employee-built AI agents and applications are transforming organizations and why they need a governance foundation to reach production. This post introduces the A-CX AI Nexus, a set of cloud-agnostic libraries that provide the control plane organizations need to deploy agentic AI securely, reliably, and at scale.
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A-CX at Mix Sound for Film & TV 2026: AI & Sound
September 26 @ 8:30 am – 8:15 pm PDTSony Pictures StudiosCulver City, CAA-CX is exhibiting at Mix Sound for Film & TV 2026 at Sony Pictures Studios on September 26. Book time with our team on-site.
A-CX built its own governed AI tooling instead of relying on unverified public plugins. This post covers the decisions, the architecture, the feedback loop, and where AI genuinely moves the needle.
