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Waterfall → Iterative → Agentic: Our new handbook on AI Systems Engineering
Every generation of hardware has broken the methodology that worked for the last one. This handbook defines what comes next: continuous alignment powered by AI agents, the infrastructure it depends on, and the role shift it demands from every systems engineer.
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Skunk Works and the 14 Rules Behind Fast Engineering
NASA invented systems engineering. Skunk Works perfected it.
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Partnership
1,000+ Engineers at Rivian Use Flow as the Requirements System of Record
How Rivian partnered with Flow to create a system built for iteration at enterprise scale.
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AI Hardware Development
Hardware teams are building systems more complex than ever, but coordination capacity is not keeping up.
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Airbus A380—One of the most expensive lessons in aviation history
The Airbus A380 did not fail because engineers were bad at engineering. It failed because teams worked in different tools and lost a shared source of truth.
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Inside the SpaceX Internal Design Tool
The Bill of Design (BOD) is how SpaceX turns requirements, ownership, and testing into a single operating system for speed and rigor.
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Hardware development's biggest problem is not engineering. It's communication.
As teams grow, the real bottleneck is not technical skill. It is how engineers stay aligned across disciplines, tools, and programs.
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Announcing Flow's $23M Series A, Led by Sequoia
Flow raises $23M Series A from Sequoia, founders of Stripe & Unity to help hardware teams iterate like software.
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OceanGate: A Masterclass in How Not to Do Systems Engineering
The Titan Submersible failure report is out. It's a wild masterclass in how not to build safety-critical systems.
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