Do or do not. There is no backlog.

For decades, it was acceptable to say, “that’s a great idea - we’ll put it on the backlog.” In the past few months, that has changed.

For bugs of any kind, and simple features that don’t require careful thought, there cannot be a backlog anymore.

Do it, or don’t do it. There is no “next quarter.” If it’s a good idea, you should just do it now. If it’s not, then don’t.

Features and fixes that used to take hours or weeks can now be one-shotted by Opus 5.5 in the background and in parallel. Paste the link to the bug report in Slack, ask for a video providing irrefutable proof that it’s been fixed, and come back in an hour. Or sometimes seven hours, but whatever.

Even if you’re not sure whether an agent can one-shot it, there’s no reason not to point an agent at it.

Burn the backlog. Do it now, or do it never.

Addendum: Won’t this disturb the focus of my engineers, who are working on very important roadmap work right now?

It shouldn’t. If it does, that’s a problem. The job is changing, the ceiling is higher, and things are now possible that we previously couldn’t have dreamed of.