https://hareesh.co/categories/leadership/Recent content in Leadership on Hareesh KanchanepallyHugoen-gbMon, 25 May 2026 00:00:00 +0000https://hareesh.co/notes/2026/field-notes-from-ai-native-engineering/Mon, 25 May 2026 00:00:00 +0000https://hareesh.co/notes/2026/field-notes-from-ai-native-engineering/<p><em>On harness engineering, XP rediscovered, and what AI is genuinely changing about how we build software.</em></p> <h2 class="heading" id="introduction"> Introduction <a class="anchor" href="#introduction">#</a> </h2> <p>Most enterprise product-development and delivery machinery, however well-intentioned, has a way of converting bold visions into faster horses.<sup id="fnref:1"><a href="#fn:1" class="footnote-ref" role="doc-noteref">1</a></sup> The feature factory,<sup id="fnref:2"><a href="#fn:2" class="footnote-ref" role="doc-noteref">2</a></sup> the Victorian-industrial line of thinking about software as production rather than as the flow of information, remains the default shape of how software gets built in large organisations, and the cost of that default is precisely what a generation of writing from Martin Fowler, Kent Beck, Don Reinertsen and others has been documenting since the late 1990s. What I want to share in this piece is a synthesis of observations that have been recurring across several pieces of work I have been building over the last year, some in my professional life and some as personal projects, all of them disciplined enough to function as real artefacts rather than as throwaway demonstrations.</p>