Notes
Thoughts on software, AI, and systems.
AI-Native Engineering: From Autocomplete to Agent Orchestration
Exploring the shift from AI-augmented to AI-native engineering, the context stack, and the systemic verification crisis.
Authority-First Agent Architecture
Decoupling permission logic from reasoning loops to build safer, more predictable agentic systems.
Failure-Oriented Agent Orchestration
A governance-first approach to agent orchestration prioritizing predictability, containment, and recoverability over raw productivity.
Earned Agent Autonomy: A Governance Model for AI Systems
A risk-mitigated governance framework for integrating AI agents into production software engineering workflows through a staged autonomy ladder.
Agent Execution Contracts: Unifying Specification, Testing, and Labor
How specifications, tests, and agents collapse into a single machine-readable contract that governs autonomous labor.
Agent-First Software Engineering
A practical description of an agent-first workflow where software engineering shifts from typing code to designing boundaries, governance, and verification for AI agents.
Typing Code Is Solved
Why the bottleneck in software engineering is no longer typing code, but context, constraints, and judgment in agent-assisted systems.