Why I built Aloha for agents that build over weeks
Aloha is my spec-driven workflow for Claude Code: it keeps a project's plan in files and git, commits each task, and verifies every phase against its goal rather than its task list.
A working publication
Current evidence, an operating point of view, and a practical next step.
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Or ask the library a questionAloha is my spec-driven workflow for Claude Code: it keeps a project's plan in files and git, commits each task, and verifies every phase against its goal rather than its task list.
What Brynjolfsson, Li, and Raymond found when a software firm gave its support agents an AI assistant, and how I would decide who at a small investment firm gets one first and how to watch quality.
What Maxime Bonelli found about venture firms that adopted data technologies for screening, and how I would decide whether a small investment firm should let a model rank its pipeline.
What Csaszar, Ketkar, and Kim found when they compared language models with investors at generating and judging startup strategies, and how I would decide where a model belongs in a small investment firm's decision.
How chip architecture, model progress, context, and human learning affect the useful work a firm can accept and sustain.
What the displacement and mental-health literature says, how people use AI day to day, and who decides what safe output is, framed as a duty of care an operator can act on.
A practical pilot with editable comparisons, evidence records, learning exercises, productivity measures, and recovery checks.
How I connect chips, models, context, and human understanding to five checks for accepting useful work.
How I would use AI coaching, practice, and observable progress to help people explain, adapt, and improve their work.
My reading of Bill Gates’s essay and the questions it raises for technology operations.
A completion standard that follows an assistant’s action into the authoritative system.
Following information and authority through a connected assistant before granting access.
The task boundaries, evidence, and operating conditions I would test before expanding an AI workflow.
How I would compare accepted work, review effort, rework, and changes in the tasks people attempt.