# AI — Daine Mawer > Agentic coding, review practices, and how AI is reshaping the day-to-day of building software. 7 articles filed under AI. ## Articles - [Your AI Coding Agents Need a Circuit Breaker, Not a Lower Budget Cap](https://www.dainemawer.com/ai-agent-circuit-breakers-not-budget-caps.md): Published 2026-10-07. 6 min read. Uber and Microsoft both capped per-engineer AI spending in 2026 after burning through annual budgets in months. A smaller number doesn't stop one run from looping for hours. An execution pattern borrowed from site reliability engineering does. - [Your MCP Servers Are Burning Your Agent's Context Window](https://www.dainemawer.com/mcp-context-window-bloat.md): Published 2026-09-28. 5 min read. Tool definitions load into context before an agent does anything. Code execution and progressive disclosure are how teams are getting that budget back. - [AI Is Forking the Engineering Manager Role Into Two Jobs](https://www.dainemawer.com/ai-forking-engineering-manager-role.md): Published 2026-09-23. 7 min read. Middle management is flattening industry-wide. What survives of engineering management is splitting into two tracks that need almost opposite skills. - [Spec-Driven Development: Why the Spec Is Becoming the New Code Review](https://www.dainemawer.com/spec-driven-development.md): Published 2026-09-21. 7 min read. Prompts drift. A versioned spec is how teams are catching it before it ships. - [Why AI Coding Agents Need WIP Limits Too](https://www.dainemawer.com/wip-limits-for-ai-agents.md): Published 2026-09-14. 6 min read. A framework for deciding how many agents one engineer can actually run at once. - [How to Orchestrate Multiple AI Coding Agents Without Losing Architectural Control](https://www.dainemawer.com/orchestrating-multiple-ai-agents.md): Published 2026-09-11. 5 min read. A framework for staff engineers directing several agents at once, not just reviewing what one of them wrote. - [How to Review AI-Generated Code Without Becoming a Bottleneck](https://www.dainemawer.com/reviewing-ai-generated-code.md): Published 2026-09-07. 5 min read. A framework for staff engineers reviewing pull requests an agent wrote. --- Canonical HTML: https://www.dainemawer.com/topics/ai Markdown index: https://www.dainemawer.com/index.md · Agent guide: https://www.dainemawer.com/agents.md · [llms.txt](https://www.dainemawer.com/llms.txt) Attribution: Daine Mawer — https://www.dainemawer.com/about