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Using AI Doesn’t Mean You Can Slack on Architecture

AI coding tools are getting wildly useful. You might think that if AI can write code, architecture matters less. I think the opposite's true.

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We are producing more with AI. What we’re producing less of, apparently, is honest reflection on what that actually means.

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Agents make it very easy to outsource thinking. If I blindly accept that, though, I may end up with a shallow understanding of the system.

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Not everything needs to be AI-powered. I recently learned this while writing a Claude skill paired with the Claude in Chrome extension.

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Coding agents have changed what happens when you sit down to pair with someone newer to the codebase for mentorship pair programming.

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I was skeptical, but now I'm sold. If you've been using Claude Code for a while and haven't run /insights yet, it's worth a look.

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Most agent setups are overbuilt. Sometimes what matters is a small agent surface that both a human and a model can use without ceremony.

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One might think computer vision models are supposed to be easy to put into production. There are whole companies built on that promise.

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When you pair program, you decide when you want to pay for the decisions you’re making. With AI in the loop, it’s easy to defer that cost.

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If AI code review can remove the bottleneck in the pull request process, developers can push changes faster than before.

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With some planning before I prompt, I get better results that scale well. Here's what I ask before I get started.

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Any time someone talks about “guardrails” on an AI prompt, it usually involves additional instructions in the prompt to “behave yourself”.