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Platform economics & tooling
A desk of the Fastpace GroundTruth library
What this actually costs, and what it is worth.
The money: per-ticket agent cost, attributing model spend, cost controls that do not quietly degrade quality, build versus buy on the control layer, and the honest version of measuring return without flattering the numbers.
Economics & toolingThe long view 7 articles
Articles
- The ADLC in five years, and what stays human The generation of code is nearly solved. Taste, judgement about what is worth building, and the person who answers when an agent is wrong are not, and will not be.
- Attributing model spend to features and teams Splitting one provider invoice across an org chart looks like an accounting problem. It is really a question about where you draw the boundary, and the boundary you pick changes behaviour.
- Cost controls that do not degrade quality Most cost controls are quality cuts in disguise, and the bill just moves to a line item nobody is watching. A few are free. Here is how to tell them apart.
- The parts of this that get more expensive the longer you wait Most of what you will need for an agentic organisation can be added the day you need it. Two things cannot, and they are the two everybody defers. Here is why the order matters more than the timing.
- What we will miss about the SDLC Every transition in this industry gets narrated by its beneficiaries, which means the losses go unrecorded until it is too late to keep any of them. Some of what the old life cycle provided was genuinely good.
- Predictions we are willing to be wrong about Seven claims about where the ADLC goes next, each with a date and a stated condition that would prove it wrong. A prediction nobody can check is not a prediction.
- What agents actually cost, per ticket Your provider invoice is a single number for a hundred different activities. Here is how to build a per-ticket cost model that survives the next price change.
The other desks
Delivery & program intelligenceWhat the numbers do when agents arrive. Engineering leadershipWhat happens to the people when the code writes itself. Governance, security & complianceThe questions an auditor will ask, before they ask them. Product & acceptance criteriaDone, defined precisely enough that a machine can check it.