Now that computers do all the work, the human’s role is being a vessel for accountability. We’ll let AI take the cognitive load, but we won’t be comfortable granting it intent—so someone needs to sign their name on the PR.

another test with a fresh workflow

The most underrated skill in AI-assisted development isn’t prompt engineering — it’s knowing when to let the model run versus when to intervene. Orchestration is taste applied to automation.

Every abstraction is a bet that the thing you’re hiding won’t matter. Most of the time you’re right. When you’re wrong, it’s expensive.

Re-reading The Timeless Way of Building by Christopher Alexander. The patterns language idea keeps finding new applications — this time I’m seeing it through the lens of API design.