55## The Phoenix Reborn
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77If you haven't read "The Phoenix Project" yet, this is your sign from the universe
8- telling you that it's time. Go on, this post will still be here when you get back?
8+ telling you that it's time. Go on, this post will still be here when you get back.
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1010Still here? Cool.
1111
1212### A very quick Phoenix Project Recap
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14- An extremely condensed take of the central point of "The Phoenix Project" is:
14+ An extremely condensed take on the central point of "The Phoenix Project" is:
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1616> Shorten feedback loops as much as possible
1717
18- In the book and day-to-day devops , that's achieved in several ways:
18+ In the book and day-to-day DevOps , that's achieved in several ways:
1919* Colocating ops resources on dev teams, instead of siloing them in separate orgs
2020* Making use of CI to provide fast feedback in a dev-like environment
2121* Making use of tests in the development flow
@@ -24,12 +24,12 @@ In the book and day-to-day devops, that's achieved in several ways:
2424Each of these seeks to reduce the amount of time a problem sits waiting before it
2525can be addressed by someone with the knowledge to fix it.
2626
27- ### Code is free but you are still in chains
27+ ### Code is free but specification is still expensive
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29- The change in quality of output from top-tier LLMs in late 2025 changed the game.
29+ The step in quality of output from top-tier LLMs in late 2025 changed the game.
3030Code is now easy to produce in good quality and high quantity. The new gap is one
31- that has always existed: * understand whole problems and write a plan detailed enough
32- to make a solution* .
31+ that has always existed: understand whole problems and write a plan detailed enough
32+ to make a solution.
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3434Spec-driven development is a particularly promising output of this; structured input
3535that captures every possible problem, solution, and decision in a small problem space.
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4848* Linter
4949* Autoformatter
5050* Tests
51- * CI/CD pipelines (and access to read/run them!)
51+ * CI/CD pipelines
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53+ This is how you provide fast feedback and get good results; it's exactly the same
54+ principle that devops was built on.
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5356Make your AI aware of them, make it use them, and make it constantly review its own work
5457(or get another model to do it).
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