Engineering Blog

Technical insights, architecture decisions, and lessons learned from building technology to support successful reentry and reduce recidivism.

August 4, 2025•Marc Cull

An Even Agile-er Manifesto

Agile changed the world by making software iterative, collaborative, and shippable. Now, AI writes most of our code, cloud vendors handle our scale, and shipping is trivial. Velocity won! Now what? The Even Agile-er Manifesto is a call to designers, engineers, and product leaders to both lean forward and shift even farther left to manifest maximally lovable products.

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July 30, 2025•Marc Cull& 1 more

Hello, FreeWorld!

From concept to deployment in under 3 hours: How we built FreeWorld's engineering blog using AI-assisted development, with a little sass and style from the human in the loop. A meta "Hello, World" post, reflecting on AI-bootstrapping, & setting the stage for lots of engineering-out-loud to come!

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