Notes from a conversation with Gregor Hohpe — author of The Software Architect Elevator and Enterprise Integration Patterns, former principal at AWS and Google. The bad architects are easy to spot. The great ones are invisible — everything just works, and nobody can say exactly why. Gregor Hohpe on what separates the two, and how […]
Read More →Spec-driven development treats a structured specification—not the codebase—as the system of record. This post maps who does what when you work that way: from turning product intent into an agent-readable spec, through API contracts and UI rules, to validation that implementation still matches what you wrote down. Table of contents Overview Spec-driven development (SDD) is […]
Read More →In the last eighteen months, the “how” of software engineering has undergone a seismic shift. We’ve entered the era of Vibe Coding—a world where the distance between a raw idea and a running production service is narrowed by a well-phrased prompt and an LLM that “gets the vibe.” But as we lean more on generative AI […]
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