Series
Posts, in sequence
Some questions don't fit in one post. A series is a line of thinking followed across several — read in order, each part building on the last.
Complete · Sep 27
Engineering with agents
Staying in the control plane of AI-assisted development — from treating every inference call as an architectural decision, to sizing the handoff, to the posture that keeps a developer an operator rather than a spectator.
- 01Engineering Before Inference: The Question Zero Token Architecture Is Actually Asking16 min read
- 02The Handoff Is the Unit of Design: Delegating to Agents Without Losing the System12 min read
- 03The Spectator Trap: Staying in Control of AI-Assisted Development9 min read
- 04The Bottleneck Moved to Review — and Nobody Agrees on What Happens Next11 min read
- 05Fitness Functions Are the Control Plane for Agentic Coding12 min read
- 06Introducing Comprehension Coverage9 min read
- 07The Comprehension Gate: Making Human Understanding an Engineering Constraint10 min read
How a series works
A series has a fixed number of parts decided up front, published one a week in reading order. Each post carries its place in the sequence, and the last part closes the question the first one opened.