Practical pieces on AI-assisted engineering and software architecture.
Your repo has a scripts directory nobody opens, and somebody rebuilt one of the files in it last month. An agent does the same thing, on every task, and bills you for the redisc...
Your architecture diagram says the boundaries hold. The interesting question is what happens the first time you assert them against code you believed was clean.
Your delivery process is seven correct steps in an onboarding document, and everyone follows it roughly. Roughly is where the incidents come from, and an agent following it roug...
You injected a Clock, pinned it in every test, and then wrote published_at = now() in a SQL statement. There are two clocks in your service and only one of them takes instructions.
You approve a small automated edit, it reports success, and the file no longer parses. The bug is not in the regex. It is in reaching for a tool that had no way to say no.
Somebody will tell you a constraint in the database duplicates the check in your service. They are describing two different guarantees, and dropping either one costs you somethi...
Acceptance rate tells you how often engineers pressed Tab. It tells you nothing about whether your organisation is delivering faster. Here's what to measure instead.
A gate passed on your machine and failed in CI, so you assumed CI was stricter. Usually it is just cleaner, and your check has been answering a question about your laptop.