Essay16 min read
The Next Decade Looks More Like Terraform Than GitHub
Terraform proved infrastructure should be declared. The same transformation is coming to application software. The specification becomes the source of truth.
Insights
Thinking on software identity, agentic development, and the engineering decisions that persist.
Essay11 min read
The Three Debts AI Is Creating (Only One Is About Code)
Everyone's talking about AI code quality. The actual problem is cognitive debt, verification debt, and architectural debt, and your linter can't catch any of them.
Essay12 min read
8,000 Startups Need a Rebuild
The first wave of vibe-coded startups is hitting a wall. The survivors won't be the ones who abandoned AI. They'll be the ones who defined what their software is before they let AI build it.
Essay11 min read
The Compliance Time Bomb in Your AI-Generated Code
EU AI Act enforcement hits August 2026. Colorado's AI Act hits June 2026. Most engineering orgs have zero governance for AI-generated code. The audit is coming.
Essay12 min read
Rewrite Everything. Lose Nothing.
AI is making rewrites cheap. But 70% still fail. The code is disposable. The contracts are not.
Essay12 min read
The Truth Layer Needs Infrastructure, Not Just Documents
Bill Eisenhauer proposed that specifications are the durable artifact and code is a regenerable rendering. The natural next question: what does the infrastructure look like that makes that work at enterprise scale?
Essay11 min read
Declare Your Compliance Once. Be Compliant Forever.
Every compliance tool tells you you're broken. None of them fix it. What if a single declaration triggered automatic, codebase-wide reconciliation?
Essay13 min read
How to Build an Engineering Org for the Agent Era
If you were hiring today knowing AI writes 41% of the code, would you build the same org? The roles, the teams, the governance -- it all changes.
Guide13 min read
How to Audit AI-Generated Code for Compliance
Your auditor will ask who wrote the code, against what specification, and how you verified it. Here's how to have answers.
Guide16 min read
How to Write Specs That AI Agents Actually Follow
You wrote a spec. Your AI agent ignored it. Here is why, and how to write specifications that agents actually respect.