If You Started Coding After the AI Boom, Read the 12-Factor App

I didn’t write this for experienced software engineers. If you’ve spent years building and running production systems, you probably already know the 12-Factor App. Maybe you don’t remember all twelve …

Diligence as the Engineering of Anticipation

In 2013, I worked at FCamara and was part of a group called the Critical Operations Team. From time to time we’d meet in a way that broke from the usual routine. No meeting room, no slides, no rigid agenda. It was …

When I stopped thinking about latency the way I always had

For most of my career, latency was a number. You measured it, set a threshold, and if the number was too high you went to fix it. A request goes in, a response comes out. Either it’s within acceptable range or it …

AI Reliability in Software Engineering: The Gap Between Assistant and Actor

When you use AI as an assistant, a wrong answer is annoying. When AI is an actor in your production system, a wrong answer has consequences. That distinction matters more than most architectural discussions about AI …

AI Browsers. The cost of convenience

Have you ever wondered about the scope of having a browser with artificial intelligence inside? From the outside, it sounds absolutely fantastic. An assistant always present, able to sum up pages, answer questions about …