With AI coding assistants generating good-enough first drafts, implementation details and syntax mastery are becoming less important than specifications and systems design. This video explores where that shift is heading — and where it can go wrong. The core idea: small, well-specified “black box” modules that AI agents can generate, test, and regenerate on demand,
Most developers aren’t using AI assistants anywhere near their full potential for architecture work. This video breaks down a practical framework for using AI at every stage of making a strategic technical decision — not to get “the perfect answer,” because that doesn’t exist in architecture, but to make better-informed trade-offs. What’s covered: AI won’t
AI budgets hit faster than expected. Token costs compound quietly in the background — until you’re mid-sprint and suddenly hitting limits. This video walks through 11 practical techniques developers can use to reduce AI costs without reducing what AI does for them. What’s covered: Every token saved is a token you can spend on harder
Most developers handle GenAI’s non-determinism in one of two ways: they ignore it, or they try to force it away. Both approaches fail. There’s a better model. Topics covered: The quadrant doesn’t have a name yet – share your suggestions.
AI tools are generating 110% more code. Lead times are up 480%. Code churn is up 861%. Something is very wrong. This is a commentary on the Faros AI Engineering Report 2026 (“The Acceleration Whiplash”), surfaced by Kent Beck’s LinkedIn post. The data covers 22,000 developers across 4,000 teams. Kent Beck’s post: https://www.linkedin.com/posts/kentbeck_the-ai-engineering-report-2026-the-ai-acceleration-share-7471011014738841600-JErm/Faros report: https://www.faros.ai/blog/ai-acceleration-whiplash-takeaways
Most developers using AI are optimizing for the wrong thing. Speed metrics and line counts are not quality — and AI makes that confusion worse, not better. This video is a reaction to Nolan Lawson’s article “Using AI to write better code more slowly,” published May 2026: https://nolanlawson.com/2026/05/25/using-ai-to-write-better-code-more-slowly/ Topics covered: Going slow with AI isn’t
Most developers use AI assistants the same way they use a search engine: ask, get an answer, move on. That habit is costing them the most valuable thing AI can actually do. The real power isn’t in generation — it’s in conversations that build understanding before you write a single line of code. Topics covered:
Storing time series data in PostgreSQL or another relational database feels obvious – until the table hits 50 million rows and your queries take 15 seconds. The problem isn’t your schema or your indexes. You’re using the wrong tool. Time series databases are built especially for this usage pattern. We cover: If you’re manually partitioning
Code is a communication medium for two radically different audiences — the machine and the developer. In the age of LLMs, the machine-facing part is being commoditized. What remains?This video is a live commentary on Unmesh Joshi’s article “What Is Code?” published on Martin Fowler’s blog. Topics covered:
AI coding assistants misunderstand your architecture — not because they’re buggy, but because architectural intent was never visible in the code to begin with.In this video I read through and comment on Ian Bull’s article “Sinks, Not Pipes: Software Architecture in the Age of AI”, adding my own perspective from my work on usable software
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