Policy
- How To Implement Continuous Refactoring With AI Agents May 2026 Deliberate refactoring as an enabler for autonomous refactoring.
- Building a High-Agency Human Workforce March 2026 How to retain your most capable engineers while AI intensifies work.
- A Context Engineering Investment Framework March 2026 A framework for which context engineering practices remain as LLMs improve.
Fundamentals
- Software Architecture for AI Agents: Designing for Permanent Absence March 2026 If you no longer read what AI builds, you have to start building smaller.
- The Future of Context Engineering February 2026 Using the human brain to predict how LLMs will evolve.
- Shell Theory: Solving the AI Amplification Paradox January 2026 A model that explains when AI replaces programmers.
Blogs
- Nanoservices and AI: Why the Anti-Pattern Becomes the Architecture April 2026 Why nanoservices, once an antipattern, are the architecture AI-driven development requires.
- The Junior Developer of the Future March 2026 Entry-level tasks disappear, but entry-level careers are wide open.
- A Theoretical View on ‘Something Big is Happening’ February 2026 A critique on viral essays written by AI.
Recommended readings
- The Impact of AI on Software Architecture through the Lens of Emergence Theory March 2026 A theoretical grounding based on Anderson (1972) and Prigogine (1984). Jan van der Jagt
- The Bitter Lesson Essential reading for anyone designing solutions: a concise argument for why general methods that leverage computation consistently outperform hand-crafted approaches. Rich Sutton
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