We write about what we're learning as we build Intent — from rethinking software delivery to working with AI every day.
If you're a product owner, you've probably had this experience: you write a story, hand it to engineering, and get a question back that stops the sprint cold — "wait, we already built something like this," or "this conflicts with a decision we made two months ago." Nobody did any…
If you've ever context-switched between a Jira ticket, a spec doc, and your editor just to answer "wait, what am I actually supposed to build here?" — you know the tax it puts on real work. Today that tax gets a lot smaller: the Intent plugin for Cursor is live, bringing changese…
Documentation has a shelf-life problem. The moment a spec is written as a plan — full of "will be" and "once implemented" — it starts aging. By the time the code ships, the document is already half-wrong. We wanted to fix that, so we redesigned how Intent generates and structures…
Most engineering teams are running two parallel systems that never quite talk to each other: a ticket tracker full of stale requirements, and a documentation tool full of out-of-date wikis. You spend half your planning time bridging the gap between them — and the code itself? It …
Anyone who has shepherded a large feature branch through code review knows the feeling: the diff is enormous, reviewers are overwhelmed, and merging feels like defusing a bomb. The instinct is always to split the work — but keeping those smaller PRs organized and traceable is a p…
Dependency management is one of those invisible tax items on every engineering team. Someone starts a feature, another engineer is quietly touching the same service, and by the time anyone notices the conflict it's review week and the damage is done. The usual fix is process: Sla…