Field notes from Obedience Corp. Forward deployed engineering: we embed with your team and remove the work that is eating it.https://obediencecorp.com/https://obediencecorp.com/blog/organized-diffusion/https://obediencecorp.com/blog/organized-diffusion/Organized diffusion models execution. It turns ambiguous intent into an outcome with evidence by doing real work across agents, tools, context, workflows, and artifacts.Fri, 21 Aug 2026 00:00:00 GMTLance Rogershttps://obediencecorp.com/blog/agent-teams-lose-to-single-sessions/https://obediencecorp.com/blog/agent-teams-lose-to-single-sessions/I ran a manager-worker agent team on 67 real tasks. A single session would have done the work better. The failure modes are structural.Wed, 19 Aug 2026 00:00:00 GMTLance Rogershttps://obediencecorp.com/blog/context-should-live-in-the-repo/https://obediencecorp.com/blog/context-should-live-in-the-repo/Agent memory should be files in git, next to the work they describe, not rows in a vendor database.Wed, 19 Aug 2026 00:00:00 GMTLance Rogershttps://obediencecorp.com/blog/gates-are-decisions/https://obediencecorp.com/blog/gates-are-decisions/A gate an agent waves itself through is not a gate. Quality gates for agent work have to be decisions against artifacts.Wed, 19 Aug 2026 00:00:00 GMTLance Rogershttps://obediencecorp.com/blog/loop-engineering/https://obediencecorp.com/blog/loop-engineering/The unit of work is no longer a prompt. It is a loop with a driver, a body, exit conditions, and failure modes.Wed, 19 Aug 2026 00:00:00 GMTLance Rogershttps://obediencecorp.com/blog/the-management-inversion/https://obediencecorp.com/blog/the-management-inversion/Production got cheap. The bottleneck moved: holding fragments together until the work is actually done.Wed, 19 Aug 2026 00:00:00 GMTLance Rogershttps://obediencecorp.com/blog/nine-months-of-festival/https://obediencecorp.com/blog/nine-months-of-festival/Nine months of running Festival on real work, measured from the logs.Thu, 25 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMTLance Rogers