Systems thinking is still the work
Generated code changes the cost of syntax. Engineers still need to reason about effects, evidence, boundaries, and recovery.
Writing on software design, company building, and the computer industry.
All of my long-form thoughts on programming, leadership, blockchains, cybersecurity and more, collected in chronological order.
When the revision changes, the approval expires
A revision-bound approval check and the narrow behaviour its tests establish.
What passing tests leave unresolved
A review exercise for separating fixture coverage from the assumptions a change adds to an integration.
A Local-First Coding Agent Needs a Measurable Boundary
What a public Metron release makes visible about tool limits, approval, and evaluating local AI coding agents.
An agent-ready API needs more than an MCP server
Agent-facing APIs need explicit effects, idempotency, bounded retrieval, typed failures, and a recovery path.