Points of view on enterprise architecture, AI adoption, and technology leadership in regulated organisations.
We rebuilt the ailíniú website using AI as a collaborator, not a shortcut. The words took longer than the code, and the skills that make enterprise architecture effective turned out to be exactly what made AI-assisted development work.
A former colleague's comment stopped me in my tracks. On operational experience, hard-won instincts, and what a nine-phase process can and can't encode.
Boris Cherny said a coder is now more like an architect than a construction worker. I read that from the other side of the transition — an enterprise architect who discovered he could actually build.
On retrieval augmented generation, multi-agent swarms, and why context engineering is the discipline the EA community is uniquely positioned to lead.
The fix wasn't a better AI. It was a better briefing. How a nine-phase process and seven documents changed the way I build with AI.
Everything that made AI-assisted development work well turned out to be just good architecture practice. The skills I'd spent years building weren't a disadvantage. They were a significant advantage.
