Essay14 min read
Code Is Ephemeral. Identity Is Permanent.
Twitter rewrote Ruby to Scala. Uber's microservices have a 1.5-year half-life. The code is always temporary. The question is what persists.
Insights
Thinking on software identity, agentic development, and the engineering decisions that persist.
Essay11 min read
The 3am Engineer Who Couldn't Find the Answer
Your best engineer quit. Your on-call just got paged. The service is down. Nobody who's awake has ever touched this code. This is the cost of undocumented identity.
Essay12 min read
Documentation Is Dead. Long Live Identity.
The $6 billion documentation industry is solving the wrong problem. You don't need better docs. You need software that knows what it is.
Essay13 min read
The Missing Layer Between Your AI Agent and Your Codebase
Every AI coding agent has context about your code. None have persistent understanding of what your software is supposed to be. That's the gap.
Essay14 min read
Software DNA: The Primitive Nobody Built
Software DNA is a declarative identity layer that defines what software is, what it should do, and what constraints it must honor. It's the primitive the industry has been building around without building.
Manifesto18 min read
Your Software Doesn't Know What It Is
Software runs the financial system, the power grid, the hospital. It has no persistent identity. In an era where 41% of code is AI-generated, that's existential.