Mark Kraemer, smiling, arms crossed

Software Engineer

Exploring the latest technology and behaviors to improve businesses and personal lives.

The latest notes and judgment calls.

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Two systems I run every day. Free to install.

pipeline + harness

Agent skills that take a feature from plan to merged pull request. The agent does the work between the gates. A person makes the call at each gate, and a weekly loop learns from the record.

  • Plan
  • Implement
  • Review
  • Open the PR
  • Feedback
Agent worksPerson decides
$ install command lands with the release

The plan-and-reflect loop

A daily system for leading people. Each morning the agent reads my messages, issues, and reviews and proposes a plan. Each evening it checks the plan against what happened, so the reflection runs on evidence.

  • Top three
  • Premortem
  • Promises due
  • One experiment
  • One judgment call
Agent draftsPerson decides
$ install command lands with the release

About me

I am a Software Director at RoleModel Software. I plan capacity across the firm's client work and still run my own builds. For six straight years I have led client builds from a vision to production. I also built Prep Slate, a cooking app on the App Store.