Writing

A growing collection of essays on AI architecture and AI-native development practice.

Medium·June 2026

How AI Software Development Changes The Premature Optimization Paradigm

An essay on how AI collapses the cost of writing optimized code, why that inverts Knuth's old "premature optimization" tradeoff, and where the line still holds: the judgment of what is worth building, which AI never made cheap.

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Medium·June 2026

Codifying "Less is More" AI Enforcement

An essay on why AI agents follow terse imperatives more reliably than reasoning-rich prose, and the pattern of splitting each architectural rule into two voicings: a context-heavy version for the humans deciding it, and a stripped directive version for the agents enforcing it.

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Medium·May 2026

Architecture as Law

An essay on architectural commitments as binding constraints rather than advisory documents, and what changes when teams treat their design decisions as load-bearing inside a codebase.

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