Field notes
Field notes on building software with AI agents, and practical habits for keeping a BACKLOG.md that engineers will actually use.
GitHub Projects is powerful. A BACKLOG.md file in your repo is portable, diffable, and readable by every tool and every AI agent. Here is when each one wins.
ReadA practical format for a plain-text backlog that both humans and AI coding agents can read, edit, and keep in sync without stepping on each other.
ReadA short field guide for senior engineers: what to check first when the diff was written by an agent, and what to ignore.
ReadA backlog file checked into your repo is the smallest tool that actually scales — and it pairs surprisingly well with AI agents.
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