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Thinking about AI-first delivery.

Curated articles on how software development is changing — from our team and from practitioners we respect.

AI & Automation

Night Shift

McKinsey's April report describes an agent factory running at 20× leverage. Read through the Pareto lens, it's a description of what the platform is already built for.

April 20, 20267 min read
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AI & Automation

Capabilities, Not Tools

McKinsey's 2026 AI Transformation Manifesto lays out twelve themes. Strip the consulting gloss and it's a single argument: the companies that win aren't the ones with the best tech — they're the ones with the capability to harness it.

April 20, 20268 min read
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AI & Automation

Write-Only Code

We are barreling toward a future where a large and growing fraction of production code is never read by a human. What does that mean for us as an industry?

February 9, 202610 min read
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AI & Automation

Software Factories and the Agentic Moment

StrongDM's AI team built a Software Factory where specs and scenarios drive agents that write code, run harnesses, and converge — without human review.

February 6, 20268 min read
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AI & Automation

The Oh Shit Moment

There is a moment — everyone who has had it recognizes it — when you first see an AI agent autonomously do something for you. You cannot unsee it.

February 6, 20265 min read
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AI & Automation

How AI Agents Are Redefining Software Delivery

The shift from AI-assisted coding to AI-driven delivery is accelerating. Here is how autonomous agents are changing the game for engineering teams.

February 5, 20266 min read
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AI & Automation

The Pareto Approach to Requirements Engineering

Bad requirements are the root cause of most project failures. We built an AI-first approach to ensure every line of code traces back to a real user need.

January 28, 20265 min read
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AI & Automation

Claude Code Made Me Love Meetings Again

The need to optimize for hyper-focused coding states is gone — and that changes everything about how we work.

January 27, 20264 min read
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AI & Automation

Zero Trust Security in AI-Driven Development

When AI agents write and deploy code, security cannot be an afterthought. Here is how we built zero-trust principles into every layer of the platform.

January 20, 20267 min read
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Company Updates

Announcing Pareto Platform v2

A major upgrade to our AI-first delivery platform — with improved agent coordination, faster deployments, and a redesigned monitoring experience.

January 10, 20264 min read
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Company Updates

Why We Built Pareto

High-quality software creates enormous value, but delivering it has become unnecessarily complex. We started Pareto to fix the delivery problem from the ground up.

December 18, 20255 min read
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AI & Automation

Continuous Delivery with AI Guardrails

Speed without quality is reckless. Here is how we achieve multiple deployments per day while maintaining zero critical vulnerabilities in production.

December 5, 20256 min read
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