Suzanne Daniels / Writing
I build things, break things,
and write about what survives.
AI changed the pace of software. Our operating models haven't caught up. I write about the gap: who makes decisions, what teams need from their platforms, and where human judgment belongs.
> writing
Engineering Beyond Agile
Essays on the decisions behind human–agent teams. One question: if humans can no longer be in every loop, what structure does speed need?
The Wrong Job, Done Perfectly
Your AI didn't break any rules. That's the problem.
The Agentile PM Splits Into Three
The PM role fragments too
The CTO Role Has Outgrown the Org Chart
Three datasets, one pattern: the bottleneck is the people architecture
No More Middle-Management?
The Manager Becomes Five
Speed With a Spine
Introducing the ISEE Framework
Human Judgment in a System That Never Slows Down
The System That Decides While You Sleep
The Platform Becomes the Adult in the Room
How Agentile impacts Platform Engineering
Codifying Trade‑offs
Security, Cost, and Capacity in Agentile Teams
When Teams Become Cells
How Context Replaces Coordination
When Decisions Move Upstream
Decisions carry intent, trade-offs, and power
Do We Still Need a PM?
Will the PM job be eaten for breakfast by AI?
AI and the Rise of Agentile Teams
AI maturity is forcing a structural rethink
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> book
The book is here.
- status:
- available
- title:
- Ghost Decisions
- topic:
- AI-era engineering organisations
- release:
- June 2026
Your agents ship while you sleep. Who owns the decisions they make?
If you've been reading the Substack series, you already have a hypothesis. That's not an accident.
The ideas don't stay on the page.
I take these questions to conference stages and into engineering organisations. The work is making the answers hold up in practice.