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      "url": "https://haikumethod.ai/blog/haiku-at-gigsmart/",
      "title": "How GigSmart's Team Works with AI Using H·AI·K·U",
      "summary": "H·AI·K·U was born at The Bushido Collective and is now owned and maintained by GigSmart. Here's how we use it — and why we took ownership.",
      "date_published": "2026-04-07T00:00:00.000Z",
      "authors": [
        {
          "name": "Jason Waldrip"
        }
      ],
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      "id": "https://haikumethod.ai/blog/introducing-haiku/",
      "url": "https://haikumethod.ai/blog/introducing-haiku/",
      "title": "Introducing H·AI·K·U: Why We Rebranded and What Changes",
      "summary": "From AI-DLC to H·AI·K·U — a methodology evolution from software-specific lifecycle to domain-agnostic work orchestration.",
      "date_published": "2026-04-02T00:00:00.000Z",
      "authors": [
        {
          "name": "GigSmart"
        }
      ],
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        "blog"
      ]
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    {
      "id": "https://haikumethod.ai/blog/the-agnostic-builder/",
      "url": "https://haikumethod.ai/blog/the-agnostic-builder/",
      "title": "The Agnostic Builder",
      "summary": "When AI handles implementation, the value of a human shifts from domain expertise to systems thinking. The agnostic builder doesn't specialize — they see the whole board.",
      "date_published": "2026-04-02T00:00:00.000Z",
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          "name": "GigSmart"
        }
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    },
    {
      "id": "https://haikumethod.ai/blog/design-as-a-first-class-concern/",
      "url": "https://haikumethod.ai/blog/design-as-a-first-class-concern/",
      "title": "Design as a First-Class Concern",
      "summary": "H·AI·K·U now includes a design direction system and persistent project knowledge layer, making visual design and domain understanding part of the methodology — not an afterthought.",
      "date_published": "2026-04-01T00:00:00.000Z",
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        {
          "name": "GigSmart"
        }
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      "url": "https://haikumethod.ai/blog/design-providers-and-knowledge/",
      "title": "Design Providers and Knowledge Synthesis",
      "summary": "H·AI·K·U gains first-class integration with six design tools and a persistent knowledge system that gives agents institutional memory across features.",
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          "name": "GigSmart"
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      "url": "https://haikumethod.ai/blog/first-class-passes/",
      "title": "First-Class Passes",
      "summary": "H·AI·K·U now supports typed iteration through disciplinary lenses — design, product, dev — where each pass shapes how hats behave and which workflows are available.",
      "date_published": "2026-03-31T00:00:00.000Z",
      "authors": [
        {
          "name": "GigSmart"
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        "blog"
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      "id": "https://haikumethod.ai/blog/quick-mode-and-autopilot/",
      "url": "https://haikumethod.ai/blog/quick-mode-and-autopilot/",
      "title": "Quick Mode and Autopilot",
      "summary": "Two new operating modes for H·AI·K·U — quick mode for trivial tasks with full hat discipline, and autopilot for autonomous feature delivery with strategic human checkpoints.",
      "date_published": "2026-03-31T00:00:00.000Z",
      "authors": [
        {
          "name": "GigSmart"
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        "blog"
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      "id": "https://haikumethod.ai/blog/adopting-existing-features/",
      "url": "https://haikumethod.ai/blog/adopting-existing-features/",
      "title": "Adopting Existing Features",
      "summary": "H·AI·K·U now supports reverse-engineering existing codebases into structured intent artifacts, enabling brownfield systems to participate in the full lifecycle.",
      "date_published": "2026-03-30T00:00:00.000Z",
      "authors": [
        {
          "name": "GigSmart"
        }
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      "url": "https://haikumethod.ai/blog/ai-dlc-is-a-harness/",
      "title": "H·AI·K·U Is a Harness",
      "summary": "Anthropic's engineering blog defines 'harness' as orchestration scaffolding for long-running AI agent work. H·AI·K·U fits that definition — and extends it.",
      "date_published": "2026-03-29T00:00:00.000Z",
      "authors": [
        {
          "name": "GigSmart"
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        "blog"
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      "url": "https://haikumethod.ai/blog/dark-factories-and-the-loop/",
      "title": "Dark Factories and the Loop",
      "summary": "The dark factory isn't a system you build. It's a knob you turn. H·AI·K·U treats full autonomy as a point-in-time decision, not an architectural commitment.",
      "date_published": "2026-02-20T00:00:00.000Z",
      "authors": [
        {
          "name": "GigSmart"
        }
      ],
      "tags": [
        "blog"
      ]
    },
    {
      "id": "https://haikumethod.ai/blog/agent-teams-support/",
      "url": "https://haikumethod.ai/blog/agent-teams-support/",
      "title": "H·AI·K·U Meets Agent Teams",
      "summary": "H·AI·K·U's construction loop now leverages Claude Code's Agent Teams, turning each unit of work into an independent teammate with its own context, worktree, and permission model.",
      "date_published": "2026-02-05T00:00:00.000Z",
      "authors": [
        {
          "name": "GigSmart"
        }
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        "blog"
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      "id": "https://haikumethod.ai/blog/introducing-ai-dlc/",
      "url": "https://haikumethod.ai/blog/introducing-ai-dlc/",
      "title": "Introducing H·AI·K·U",
      "summary": "A methodology for iterative AI-driven development with hat-based workflows",
      "date_published": "2026-02-02T00:00:00.000Z",
      "authors": [
        {
          "name": "GigSmart"
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