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Essays on governed AI software development, written for engineers and leaders who ship real systems.

Apr 22, 2026

Governed ADRs in the Age of AI Architecture

GAISD ManifestoSoftware Engineer · GAISD · 6 min read

Architecture Decision Records were a once-a-quarter ritual when humans made architectural decisions slowly. With agents proposing structural choices in every PR, ADRs need to become a daily filter — owned, contested, and signed — or architecture happens by accident.

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Apr 1, 2026

The Engineer Who Loses Their Own Codebase

GAISD ManifestoSoftware Engineer · GAISD · 10 min read

In communities where engineers talk to each other about AI coding tools, the same admission keeps surfacing: I am slowly losing grip on my own codebase. The cost of velocity is not burnout. It is the quiet trade of ownership for output. The career that survives the next five years belongs to engineers who refuse the trade.

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