If everyone can build software, what decides who survives?

Root Cause with John Gallagher, on culture, feature factories, and a 2 MB game on a 1.5 MB Amiga

Oct 13 • Nune Isabekyan

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Nine guests, one chain, ten minutes

Every guest leaves a question for the next one

Oct 6 • Nune Isabekyan

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September 2026

Tired of the 80%

No solutions in this post - rant and questions

Sep 5 • Nune Isabekyan

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August 2026

Software Is Not a Factory

Or at least, the interesting part isn’t

Aug 29 • Nune Isabekyan

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Short Review on “Permutation City”

It’s always hard for me to judge whether there are spoilers in my reviews or not.

Aug 25 • Nune Isabekyan

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Root Cause of Visibility in the Age of AI

Watch now (42 mins) | What is Generative Engine Optimization (GEO), and does it replace SEO?

Aug 24 • Nune Isabekyan

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Learning Loops Again, but Humbler

In my recent article I tried to show how we can implement agent loops that not only implement the requested feature, but also have a meta-overview of…

Aug 16 • Nune Isabekyan

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The Root Cause of Not Getting Hired

Watch now (56 mins) | In this episode of Root Cause we sit down with Fraser Merrifield, founder of FORM Careers in Glasgow and the self-described craft…

Aug 10 • Nune Isabekyan

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Human in the Loop, Human on the Loop... How About Loops That Learn?

Single-loop, double-loop and deutero-learning applied to agentic systems

Aug 6 • Nune Isabekyan

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July 2026

Root Cause of Where You Are on the AI Spectrum

Watch now (56 mins) | In this episode of Root Cause we sit down with Evan Marshall, co-founder and CTO of Ito.ai, to get to the root cause of where the…

Jul 27 • Nune Isabekyan

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It's too late to make technology ethical

I was speaking with a colleague the other day, and we were all doom-and-gloom about how more and more people are trusting the black box of AI to tell…

Jul 19 • Nune Isabekyan

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Root Cause of a Healthy Team

In this episode of Root Cause we sit down with Eric Lubow, a CTO who treats organizations like distributed systems, which means the root cause of a…

Jul 14 • Nune Isabekyan

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