Writing

Long-form technical articles on distributed systems, backend engineering, and AI.

August 9, 2026

From Pasted Prompts to Enforced Pipelines: How AI Engineering Discipline Evolved

From repeatedly pasted prompts to repository rules and enforceable skill pipelines, the form of engineering discipline keeps changing. What interests me is what stays the same — and what happens to the engineer when more of that discipline becomes executable.

August 6, 2026

A Smarter AI Coding Assistant Won’t Save Your Codebase

Why stronger tools do not make codebase drift disappear — four structural blind spots of AI coding agents, and what engineering discipline is actually there to compensate for.