> everybody who is like me, fully onboarded into AI and agentic tools, seemingly has less and less time available because we fall into a trap where we’re immediately filling it with more things

You fill a jar with sand and there is no space for big rocks.

But if you fill the jar with big rocks, there is plenty of space for sand. Remove one of the rocks and the sand instantly fills that void.

Make sure you fit the rocks first.

> Does it? Reverting a bad deploy is not only about running the previous version.

It does. We’ve tried. No it’s not as easy as running the previous version.

I have written about this: https://swizec.com/blog/why-software-only-moves-forward/

> Expect to pay me for the availability outside work hours.

We pay people enough to care about the software they ship.

Don’t want to be called outside of work hours? Make sure your code works. Simple.

> You also need to build a team that you can trust to write the code you agreed you'd write

I tell every hire new and old “Hey do your thing, we trust you. Btw we have your phone number. Thanks”

Works like a charm. People even go out of their way to write tests for things that are hard to verify manually. And they verify manually what’s hard to write tests for.

The other side of this is building safety nets. Takes ~10min to revert a bad deploy.