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SDLC for my homelab is changing

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Two articles landed in my queue the same week: Microsoft's New Agentic Software Delivery Primitives and Anthropic's Solving Code Review at Anthropic . Different companies, different scale, same underlying claim: the software delivery lifecycle hasn't changed shape, but where a human's attention goes inside it has moved almost entirely. I read both back to back and realized I wasn't reading about the future. I was reading a description of my Tuesday night. I run a home lab on Paperclip , tl;dr: its an agent farm with project management built in, and it's completely open source. I'm the human in the loop, and I have no other humans on staff (the kids do share ideas tho), then it's just a roster of agents (with different skills and harnesses) that pick up issues, check them out, break down big tasks, write code, open PRs, and escalate when they're stuck. My actual role in this most evenings is not writing code. It's being the one human in the loop ...
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Leadership over Management

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Also posted on medium . What makes a great leader? A leader, to me, is someone who looks out for the person next to them. That’s it. A manager can be a leader, but a leader does not need to be a manager. A leader is a role that someone chooses to take to make sure that everyone around them has a path for success. How people implement this varies in many ways. Here are some things I do. Being a manager you have a great opportunity to be a leader. You have this ability because you talk directly with everyone on your team on a pretty regular basis. There are a couple things that I do to help out to make sure everyone has a path for success. One on One meetups— These meetups are a great way to understanding individual needs/wants. How do you know what your teammate needs unless you talk about it? You can only get so much about an individual in a team meeting. The one on one is a moment where both parties can talk more deeply about the needs of both parties. This is a two way street. ...
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