# Site

## Pages

- [Page not found](https://comp4020-agentic-coding-studio.github.io/comp4020-ass2-maddywright3/404/): That page doesn't exist, or it has moved since you last looked
- [Assessment](https://comp4020-agentic-coding-studio.github.io/comp4020-ass2-maddywright3/assessments/): Every piece of graded work in the course, what it is worth, and when it is due.
- [Assignment 1](https://comp4020-agentic-coding-studio.github.io/comp4020-ass2-maddywright3/assessments/assignment-1/): The first graded checkpoint — find something real and unfinished, and name specifically why its last mile is expensive, using the frameworks from weeks 1 through 6
- [Final project](https://comp4020-agentic-coding-studio.github.io/comp4020-ass2-maddywright3/assessments/final-project/): The capstone — actually finish the thing you diagnosed in Assignment 1 (or a new one), and account for why the last mile was the expensive part
- [Labs](https://comp4020-agentic-coding-studio.github.io/comp4020-ass2-maddywright3/assessments/labs/): The weekly graded labs — twelve short, domain-specific deliverables, marked as a set rather than individually agonised over
- [Frequently asked questions](https://comp4020-agentic-coding-studio.github.io/comp4020-ass2-maddywright3/faq/): The questions people actually ask before enrolling in SLOP1241, answered the way we'd answer them in person rather than in the safe, hedged voice most FAQ pages default to.
- [Lectures](https://comp4020-agentic-coding-studio.github.io/comp4020-ass2-maddywright3/lectures/): What is covered, week by week, and which topics each lecture draws on.
- [Done Enough to Demo, Nowhere Near Shipped](https://comp4020-agentic-coding-studio.github.io/comp4020-ass2-maddywright3/lectures/week-01/): Why "it works on my machine" and "it's live for actual users" are different projects, and treating the gap as more of the same work is how software dies in the drawer
- [The Last Customer Costs More Than All the Others Combined](https://comp4020-agentic-coding-studio.github.io/comp4020-ass2-maddywright3/lectures/week-02/): Borrowing the term from telecoms and rail, we look at why running a line 99% of the way is cheap and the final stretch to every actual door is where the budget dies
- [All But the Dissertation](https://comp4020-agentic-coding-studio.github.io/comp4020-ass2-maddywright3/lectures/week-03/): Coursework has deadlines someone else enforces. The dissertation doesn't — which is exactly why "ABD" is a permanent address for so many otherwise finished PhD students
- [The Bathroom Is the Real Menu](https://comp4020-agentic-coding-studio.github.io/comp4020-ass2-maddywright3/lectures/week-04/): The kitchen earns a restaurant its customers. The restroom is what decides, silently and without complaint, whether those customers ever come back
- [The Filing You Didn't Make Is the Only One That Matters](https://comp4020-agentic-coding-studio.github.io/comp4020-ass2-maddywright3/lectures/week-05/): A case can be argued flawlessly and still be lost entirely to a calendar entry nobody double-checked — why legal work's last mile is administrative, not intellectual
- [Ship It, Then Pay the Hundred-x](https://comp4020-agentic-coding-studio.github.io/comp4020-ass2-maddywright3/lectures/week-06/): Manufacturing's own quality-cost data spells out the thesis as an actual multiplier — catch a defect in design and it costs one dollar, catch it after the customer does and it costs a hundred
- [The Handover Slide Deck Is Not the Handover](https://comp4020-agentic-coding-studio.github.io/comp4020-ass2-maddywright3/lectures/week-07/): Two teams can both finish their half of a project and the thing still fails completely at the seam between them — a $125 million spacecraft is the textbook case
- [The Round You Need Is the Round You Just Missed](https://comp4020-agentic-coding-studio.github.io/comp4020-ass2-maddywright3/lectures/week-08/): Hit the traction investors wanted and the bar for "enough traction" quietly moves again — startup fundraising's last mile isn't a steep curve, it's a finish line that runs
- [Ninety-Eight Percent Done Is a Different Building Than One Hundred](https://comp4020-agentic-coding-studio.github.io/comp4020-ass2-maddywright3/lectures/week-09/): A building department will not certify "almost finished" — why the construction punch list turns the last few percent of a project into a binary gate, not a slope
- [Final Approach Is Five Percent of the Flight and Half the Risk](https://comp4020-agentic-coding-studio.github.io/comp4020-ass2-maddywright3/lectures/week-10/): Boeing's own decades of accident data show exactly where a flight's last mile sits — a sliver of total flight time carrying roughly half the fatal risk
- [The Feature That Finishes Itself Into Irrelevance](https://comp4020-agentic-coding-studio.github.io/comp4020-ass2-maddywright3/lectures/week-11/): Richard Gabriel's "worse is better" essay is the counter-argument this course needed — sometimes the thing that loses is the one that kept finishing past the point anyone wanted
- [Which Last Mile Have You Actually Hit](https://comp4020-agentic-coding-studio.github.io/comp4020-ass2-maddywright3/lectures/week-12/): Eleven domains, eleven different reasons finishing was the expensive part — the synthesis week asks which of them you've personally lived through, not which you can recite
- [People](https://comp4020-agentic-coding-studio.github.io/comp4020-ass2-maddywright3/people/): Who teaches the course, and how to reach them.
- [Idris Fenn](https://comp4020-agentic-coding-studio.github.io/comp4020-ass2-maddywright3/people/idris-fenn/): A tutor working across the course's first reviews and the practical work that follows them.
- [Marisol Quaye](https://comp4020-agentic-coding-studio.github.io/comp4020-ass2-maddywright3/people/marisol-quaye/): The founding convenor, responsible for the course's shape and its weekly teaching programme.
- [Priya Okafor](https://comp4020-agentic-coding-studio.github.io/comp4020-ass2-maddywright3/people/priya-okafor/): A tutor sharing the marking load across the weekly labs and the two written assessments.
- [Selin Kavanagh](https://comp4020-agentic-coding-studio.github.io/comp4020-ass2-maddywright3/people/selin-kavanagh/): A systems engineer joining week 7 as a guest speaker, to talk through cross-team handovers from the side that has to live with them.
- [Policies and support](https://comp4020-agentic-coding-studio.github.io/comp4020-ass2-maddywright3/policies/): Where ANU's own rules on academic integrity, generative AI, extensions and extenuating circumstances actually live, summarised here in this course's own voice and linked back to the university's actual text rather than paraphrased into something looser than the original.
- [Demo vs. Skeptical PM](https://comp4020-agentic-coding-studio.github.io/comp4020-ass2-maddywright3/sessions/01-demo-roleplay/): A two-person roleplay where one of you demos "done" software and the other is paid to not believe you
- [The Marginal Cost of the Last Customer](https://comp4020-agentic-coding-studio.github.io/comp4020-ass2-maddywright3/sessions/02-last-mile-calculation/): An analytical lab — calculate what it actually costs to reach each successive customer on a line, and justify why the last one costs as much as everyone before them combined
- [The Week the Dissertation Stalled](https://comp4020-agentic-coding-studio.github.io/comp4020-ass2-maddywright3/sessions/03-abd-diary/): A first-person narrative lab — write the diary entry of an ABD student on the exact week their dissertation went quiet
- [The Back-of-House Zine](https://comp4020-agentic-coding-studio.github.io/comp4020-ass2-maddywright3/sessions/04-bathroom-audit-zine/): A creative lab — make a short zine auditing a real venue's front-of-house polish against its back-of-house neglect
- [Pitch the Docketing Redesign](https://comp4020-agentic-coding-studio.github.io/comp4020-ass2-maddywright3/sessions/05-docketing-pitch/): A mini-presentation lab — pitch a deadline-tracking system redesign to "the partners" (the rest of the class)
- [Cost of Quality, by Catch Point](https://comp4020-agentic-coding-studio.github.io/comp4020-ass2-maddywright3/sessions/06-cost-of-quality-calculation/): An analytical lab — calculate cost-of-quality at different inspection points using real multiplier data, and justify an inspection budget
- [The Handover That Isn't](https://comp4020-agentic-coding-studio.github.io/comp4020-ass2-maddywright3/sessions/07-handover-roleplay/): A roleplay lab — one team hands over a project by slide deck alone; the receiving team discovers live what the deck left out
- [The Round That Keeps Moving](https://comp4020-agentic-coding-studio.github.io/comp4020-ass2-maddywright3/sessions/08-fundraising-negotiation/): A negotiation roleplay lab — investors keep raising the bar for "enough traction" exactly as founders close in on it, dramatising the moving goalpost
- [Sign-Off Risk, by Phase](https://comp4020-agentic-coding-studio.github.io/comp4020-ass2-maddywright3/sessions/09-occupancy-risk-calculation/): An analytical lab — estimate certificate-of-occupancy risk-by-phase for a fictional build, justified against real punch-list categories
- [The Final Approach Safety Briefing](https://comp4020-agentic-coding-studio.github.io/comp4020-ass2-maddywright3/sessions/10-final-approach-briefing/): A mini-presentation lab — deliver a spoken safety briefing that actually translates final-approach accident statistics for a general audience
- [Should a Maintainer Always Keep Polishing?](https://comp4020-agentic-coding-studio.github.io/comp4020-ass2-maddywright3/sessions/11-overbuilding-debate/): A formal debate lab — arguing for and against continued polish, to find the exact point where this course's own thesis stops holding
- [Sixty Seconds, One Domain](https://comp4020-agentic-coding-studio.github.io/comp4020-ass2-maddywright3/sessions/12-lightning-talks/): The synthesis lab — a 60-second personal lightning talk mapping your own last-mile story to one of the eleven domains this course covered