taskcycle / development log

Development log

Progress notes from building TaskCycle — releases, engineering decisions, and evidence.

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  1. 2026-09-29

    Different AI workflows. Shared engineering standards.

    Concerns heard in workshops with software-house owners and CTOs: consistent quality, client-code privacy, and qualified review as coding agents become part of delivery.

  2. 2026-09-25

    Why I built TaskCycle as an agentic development department

    From structuring human software teams to building a governed team of AI agents: the origin story behind TaskCycle.

  3. 2026-09-21

    How I keep long-running agentic tasks alive

    Long-running agentic tasks are like intelligent batch processes - they should work without disturbing users until the task is done.

  4. 2026-09-11

    What if your team could work all night to increase productivity?

    Local AI agents can work around the clock, but the real question is whether a governed agentic team creates enough business value to justify its token and infrastructure costs.

  5. 2026-08-24

    The Origin Story

    Where this framework came from, and why the path to reliable autonomy is encoding acceptance criteria into tools the agent can be checked against — not hoping the agent infers what "correct" means.