Without Bicameral
Gaps become reworks.
Day
0
Without bicameral
Week
0
spiral never tightens · actual:
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SHIPPED
Debugging
Firefight
Refactor
PR review
Discovered Gaps
Friction of agentic development
Requirement gaps buried in generated code
→
Firefighting
Blast radius of AI-assisted edits
→
Repeated prompting
Increased shipping velocity
→
Spec alignment friction
With Bicameral
Gaps resolved asynchronously.
Day
0
With bicameral
Week
0
target: 12 weeks · actual:
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SHIPPED
PM
Dev
PR
Sync
Ledger
decision ledger · running
watching for gaps, drift, corrections, and sign-off
Spec gap detection
Gap found
Undefined payout fallback detected.
Developer
→
bicameral · preflight
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Gap detected PIX payout fallback is undefined. Tentative decision tracked on Bicameral.
Decision stays proposed until PM answers.