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Durable Software Is Anti-Vibe
Enterprise software requires deliberate design, bounded agent authority, and accountable acceptance beyond exploratory code generation.
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Surviving first contact
Notes on architecture, AI, and building software that lasts.
Enums in Databases Are Evil
A stored enum number hides its meaning. An innocent edit can then change what years of data appear to say.
01 / The notebook
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Idea
Build for Change
Systems last longer when change is expected and visible instead of hidden behind optimism and wishful thinking.
02 / Worth returning to
Classics
Selected ideas with a longer shelf life.
Classic / Essay
Against Shiny-Object Architecture
New tools deserve evaluation, not automatic adoption or automatic rejection.
Classic / Essay
Design by Committee Is Not Collaboration
Consensus can improve a design, but it can also dilute accountability and erase the real tradeoff.
Classic / Lab
Cognition Experiments
Notes on using software and AI to study attention, memory, reasoning, and learning.
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The working code.
Public repositories, packages, and experiments.
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