An architect's honest journal
on AI and building things that last.
Not a finished answer. A live one — written from the middle of a transition that's still very much in progress.
The AI-Native Architect Series
You Can't Architect What You Don't Understand
The first AI tool I used seriously at work was GitHub Copilot. For weeks I treated it like a very fast junior developer. Then it made a design decision on my behalf — and I realised I had no idea what it was actually doing.
Agentic AI Changed How I Think About Architecture
A few months ago I was in a workflow automation demo. Standard stuff on the surface. Except this one had an AI agent sitting in the middle — and nobody in the room could explain who designed the handoff.