How Architecture Emerges in AI-Assisted Development
2026-07-08
AI makes implementations cheap to generate — but ask for the same capability twice and you get two different answers to what happens when the input is ugly. Cheap code is not coherent code, so someone still has to decide what becomes shared architecture. Not upfront, though: design the rules of growth instead, and let every shared boundary be earned by a second consumer. Three months of dated receipts from a real system.
AI coding agents: is the model or the harness the bottleneck?
2026-06-27
I held the model fixed and swapped the harness around it across a 12-task suite. On easy tasks it barely mattered; on hard, structured tasks the harness decided the outcome. Plus the first results I got wrong and had to correct.
Exploring ChatGPT 4o's New Image Generation from an Engineer's Perspective
2025-04-01
Testing ChatGPT-4o's image generation for both creative storytelling and engineering applications \u2014 fantastic for art, but not yet functional for precise technical illustrations.