A two-week experiment revealed that managing shared context and execution state mattered more than the governance framework itself.
I measured two weeks of AI-assisted development and discovered that the biggest source of engineering waste wasn't the model—it was unmanaged context drift across sessions.
Over two separate weeks, I tracked the opportunity cost of building the same local project using two iterations of an AI engineering workflow.
Both weeks followed a governance framework.
Both weeks used design documents, implementation plans, and structured execution.
