Jack Kora

Your architecture is only as real as your repo harness

Learn how a repo harness turns architecture, module boundaries, contracts, and engineering rules into automated checks that prevent codebase drift.

Aug 7 • Jack Kora

July 2026

Beyond 2x AI productivity boost: Architecture is the missing piece

Learn how explicit architecture, module boundaries, and automated enforcement help teams move far beyond 2x productivity with AI coding agents.

Jul 30 • Jack Kora

A Blueprint for an Ideal Software Factory

A practical blueprint for AI software factories: spec-first pipelines, durable artifacts, human-in-the-loop gates, and portable context for scalable…

Jul 25 • Jack Kora

June 2026

Mapping the AI coding orchestrator (software factory) market

After this post went live I’ve learned that there’s a new term emerging - Software Factories.

Jun 29 • Jack Kora

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A Framework for AI Dev Tooling: Models, Harnesses, and Loops

A practical framework for AI development tooling: models, agent harnesses, repo harnesses, and inner, outer, and campaign loops for scaling AI-assisted…

Jun 22 • Jack Kora

January 2021

Managing & coaching personal conflict

The second day after I joined a new company one of my new reports burst into tears at a seemingly innocuous “How is it going?” at the beginning of our…

Jan 17, 2021 • Jack Kora

August 2019

Bias to action & minimum timeboxing

Like many people in the tech space, I am biased to action.

Aug 5, 2019 • Jack Kora

January 2019

Denver Startup Week — the Ambassador experience

Let me start by saying just how much I enjoyed the entire trip.

Jan 3, 2019 • Jack Kora

February 2018

Delivering on long term roadmap: myth or reality?

When we plan a roadmap several quarters or a whole year ahead what are our expectations (and those of the leadership team)?

Feb 25, 2018 • Jack Kora

Scope & on time delivery

“What if the customer clicks on this button, sees the popup, types some text, then cancels, and later comes back to the popup — do we preserve the…

Feb 5, 2018 • Jack Kora

On productivity & predictability in software engineering

“I am completely satisfied with how fast our engineering team delivers and how well they hit the deadlines,” said no CEO ever.

Feb 5, 2018 • Jack Kora

April 2016

DevOps without Scale, Part 2

In Part 1 of this series, I covered why it’s important to be aware of your product’s health and how you can do so.

Apr 14, 2016 • Jack Kora