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Prove and Admit, Don't Just Lint
Why executable rules are the easy half, and why the checks around agent-written code must require presence, report their blind spots, and be written as a standard rather than collected as rules.
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Enforce Architecture, Don't Trust Intent
Why load-bearing architecture rules must become executable checks rather than trusted intent.
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Outgrow Your Taste, Don't Defend It
Building a software solution is three distinct activities: understanding a reality, engineering a general machine, and encoding one into the other. Taste is required by none of them, which is exactly why ego hides there.
Make Feedback Loops Attribute, Don't Just Detect
Why feedback loops become more powerful when code makes its system concepts explicit.
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How AI Is Changing Our Relationship to Work in Software Engineering
On the excitement of AI-assisted coding, the disappearance of friction, and the need to learn how to tame our new tools.
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Why the implicit becomes fragile when humans and agents co-produce code.
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Build Systems, Don't Polish Prose
We still talk about code as if it were style. But code runs in the world.
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