Framework Reboot
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Why I'm rebooting the framework

Framework Reboot is a bet that the frameworks I inherited for managing work weren't built for a world with AI in the loop.

Most of the frameworks people use to run teams (the ceremonies, the trackers, the status rituals) were designed for a constraint that is quietly disappearing: producing and moving information was expensive and slow, and humans had to do all of it by hand.

That constraint is what a lot of process exists to manage. Standups exist because syncing state was expensive. Status reports exist because visibility was expensive. Take the cost of those things toward zero, as AI is starting to, and the frameworks built around them stop making sense, though they don't disappear on their own. They linger as habit.

Framework Reboot is my attempt to take them apart and rebuild from the primitives. The question I want to answer is what the process should be once those constraints are gone, rather than what the old process looks like with AI bolted onto it. Sometimes the answer is less software.

This site is where I think out loud about that, and the products are where I find out whether I'm right. I would rather build the argument in public and be wrong occasionally than polish a thesis in private.