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One Truth. Many Agents. Zero Drift.
One agent is a tool. Many agents without shared identity is chaos. The multi-agent era needs a single source of truth about what the software is.
Insights
Thinking on software identity, agentic development, and the engineering decisions that persist.
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The Delta, Not the Document
Specs drift because they describe states. Deltas survive because they describe decisions. Stop writing better documents. Start declaring better deltas.
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Adding to DNA Is a Decision. Adding to Code Is Just Typing.
When AI makes execution cheap, the scarce resource is not typing. It is deciding. The discipline of the next era is knowing the difference.
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Beck, Karpathy, and Willison Are Saying the Same Thing
Beck, Karpathy, and Willison arrived at the same conclusion independently: AI agents need persistent, structured specifications. The vocabulary differs. The diagnosis doesn't.
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Context Engineering Is Not Enough
Context changes per request. Identity persists across sessions, tools, and team members. Context engineering without identity engineering is a database query without a schema.
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Platform Engineering Meets AI Agents: A Governance Framework
Platform teams are the natural governance layer for AI agents. Here's the framework for making it work.
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MCP Security and the Missing Identity Layer
MCP has 97 million monthly SDK downloads and no built-in identity layer. That's a problem.
Essay12 min read
Non-Human Identity Management for AI Coding Agents
Your AI agents have credentials, make API calls, and access production data. They're operating on borrowed human identities with no scoped permissions. That's an identity crisis.
Essay11 min read
Stop Feeding Your AI the Whole Haystack
More context isn't the answer. The right context is. Your agent needs a schema to query, not a haystack to search.
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.