Thoughts and observations
Field Notes
Ideas that won't leave my head until I write them down.
Opinions that might change, lessons worth sharing, conversations I'd love to have. Take what's useful, challenge what isn't.
Architectural Tests: Encode the Decision Once, Enforce It Forever
A PR looked fine and quietly broke a module boundary anyway. Nobody caught it, because the boundary lived in my head. So now the build catches it.
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CodeCortex: Giving My AI Assistant a Memory
AI assistants forget my rules and preferences the moment a session ends. So I built the thing I wanted: a memory that keeps them, and turns my repeated corrections into rules the assistant actually follows.
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Fundamentals Matter More in the AI Era, Not Less
Three years ago I was mostly writing code. Now I'm mostly reading it. That shift made the fundamentals more valuable, not less.
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AI Tools and the Data Boundary: What Should Never Leave the Environment
Using AI tools and understanding them are two different skills. In regulated work, the gap between those skills is where breaches happen.
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The Guardrails Around AI-Generated Code
The tooling moved. The bar didn't. AI-generated code needs the same engineering rigor as anything else, with a couple of extras bolted on.
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