https://rvtherelabs.com/blog Notes from the factory floor: engineering, architecture, governance, and culture in AI-native organizations. en Tue, 14 Jul 2026 00:00:00 +0000 https://rvtherelabs.com/blog/teaching-agents-to-respect-your-adrs https://rvtherelabs.com/blog/teaching-agents-to-respect-your-adrs Engineering Tue, 14 Jul 2026 00:00:00 +0000 Code generation is easy. Code that honors two hundred prior architecture decisions is not. How we compile ADRs into constraints the Architect agent can’t ignore — and what broke along the way. https://rvtherelabs.com/blog/the-dag-is-the-org-chart https://rvtherelabs.com/blog/the-dag-is-the-org-chart Architecture Tue, 23 Jun 2026 00:00:00 +0000 When work flows between agents, topology is management. What we learned designing the routing layer. https://rvtherelabs.com/blog/audit-trails-that-write-themselves https://rvtherelabs.com/blog/audit-trails-that-write-themselves Governance Tue, 09 Jun 2026 00:00:00 +0000 Provenance as a pipeline property: every artifact knows its intent, its decision, and its approver. https://rvtherelabs.com/blog/evaluating-prompts-like-code https://rvtherelabs.com/blog/evaluating-prompts-like-code Engineering Tue, 19 May 2026 00:00:00 +0000 Regression suites for instructions: how promptvc catches behavioral drift before production does. https://rvtherelabs.com/blog/writing-for-two-audiences https://rvtherelabs.com/blog/writing-for-two-audiences Culture Tue, 05 May 2026 00:00:00 +0000 Your next design doc will be read by agents. What that changes about how engineers write — and what it doesn’t. https://rvtherelabs.com/blog/ontology-migrations-without-downtime https://rvtherelabs.com/blog/ontology-migrations-without-downtime Architecture Tue, 21 Apr 2026 00:00:00 +0000 Evolving the schema of organizational truth while a thousand agents are reading it. https://rvtherelabs.com/blog/human-gates-that-scale https://rvtherelabs.com/blog/human-gates-that-scale Governance Tue, 17 Mar 2026 00:00:00 +0000 Approval fatigue is a design flaw. Where human judgment actually belongs in an agent pipeline.