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Strategic perspectives on intent, execution, and AI-driven software.
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Intent & Execution
The Bottleneck Moved Upstream
For most of software's history the scarce resource was engineering capacity. AI made building cheap, and exposed the real constraint underneath: the judgment to decide what deserves building and confirm it was built right.
Umakant Sista3 Min Read
Software Economics
The High Cost of Free Code
Rework is usually filed under engineering hygiene. It is closer to a capital-allocation failure that happens to express itself in code, and cheap generation has removed the only brake that used to contain it.
Umakant Sista5 Min Read
Human Sovereignty
Sovereignty Is Not a Veto
Generation is becoming a solved problem. Verification is not, and it does not get cheaper as models improve. The architectural consequence is that the hard problem was never generation.
Umakant Sista6 Min Read
Systems Architecture
The Decision of Record
Generation is becoming a solved problem. Verification is not, and it does not get cheaper as models improve. The architectural consequence is that the hard problem was never generation.
Umakant Sista6 Min Read
Institutional Memory
Verification Is the Bottleneck
Generation is becoming a solved problem. Verification is not, and it does not get cheaper as models improve. The architectural consequence is that the hard problem was never generation.
Umakant Sista6 Min Read
The Intent Brief
Fortnightly perspectives on intent, human sovereignty, and the economics of AI-driven software.