<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?><rss version="2.0"><channel><title>Matthias Stier — Writing</title><description>Essays on AI-native software engineering, engineering leadership and organizational design.</description><link>https://matthiasstier.dev/</link><item><title>I Was the Bottleneck</title><link>https://matthiasstier.dev/writing/i-was-the-bottleneck/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://matthiasstier.dev/writing/i-was-the-bottleneck/</guid><description>What more than a decade of enterprise platform delivery and eight weeks of running AI agent teams at home taught me about where software organizations break next.</description><pubDate>Thu, 20 Aug 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate></item></channel></rss>