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Writing on software delivery, architecture, leadership, and AI

A three-part series on what AI changes in software engineering once implementation gets cheaper and judgement, structure, and system design become more valuable.

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01 / Start here

The current featured pieces

A recommended path through the ideas that currently frame the site.

01 Engineering in the Age of AI / Part 1 From Vibe Coding to Agentic Engineering Why AI coding feels chaotic, where vibe coding breaks down, and why the real shift is from writing code to designing the system around it. March 27, 2026 5 min read 02 Engineering in the Age of AI / Part 2 How to Actually Build with AI Agents Without Creating Chaos A practical playbook for building with AI agents using specs, task slicing, review loops, and a real case study from the Estimation Intelligence Platform. March 27, 2026 12 min read 03 Engineering in the Age of AI / Part 3 Maintaining AI-Built Systems Without Losing the Plot Drift, debt, and the maintenance problem that appears after AI makes implementation cheaper. March 27, 2026 10 min read

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The archive

Every published field note, newest first.

— Writing Two days at Umbraco UK and a growing list of things to try Notes from the Umbraco UK Partner Summit and UMBUK26, covering AI governance, Cloud, MCP workflows, performance and catching up with the community. October 17, 2026 6 min read

— Writing What Codegarden Inspired Me to Build Next A Codegarden-inspired experiment in using constrained AI, deterministic scripts, and Umbraco to turn existing sites into structured starting points. June 18, 2026 8 min read

— Writing AI Makes Implementation Cheaper. That Makes Domain Definition More Important Why cheaper implementation makes definition, modelling, and judgement more important on legacy rebuilds. May 12, 2026 12 min read

01 Engineering in the Age of AI · Part 1 From Vibe Coding to Agentic Engineering Why AI coding feels chaotic, where vibe coding breaks down, and why the real shift is from writing code to designing the system around it. March 27, 2026 5 min read

02 Engineering in the Age of AI · Part 2 How to Actually Build with AI Agents Without Creating Chaos A practical playbook for building with AI agents using specs, task slicing, review loops, and a real case study from the Estimation Intelligence Platform. March 27, 2026 12 min read

03 Engineering in the Age of AI · Part 3 Maintaining AI-Built Systems Without Losing the Plot Drift, debt, and the maintenance problem that appears after AI makes implementation cheaper. March 27, 2026 10 min read