Articles: Architecture
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ShellAgents: AI That Leaves a Paper Trail
The EU AI Act imposes audit, traceability and human oversight requirements on AI systems used in regulated contexts. ShellAgents was built around exactly these principles — not as a compliance patch, but as a design choice. Here is what that means in practice.
Read →Why Shell, Regex and ASN.1 Are Suddenly Sexy Again
Some technologies never died – they were merely displaced. AI is now democratising complex tools and rehabilitating the formal. On the quiet renaissance of robust architectures.
Read →When the Vibes End, the Thinking Begins
Vibe Coding flatters an era that believes complexity can be replaced by intuition. But a system is not born the moment something runs on screen. An essay on the difference between producing and understanding.
Read →AI Is Splitting the Engineers – and the Answer Is Architecture
The split is not between AI enthusiasts and AI sceptics. It runs between those who need full determinism and those who can contain non-determinism architecturally. On the deterministic spine.
Read →Your Website Is Invisible — AI Ate Your Traffic
AI-powered search is replacing clicks with answers. Organic CTR has dropped 61% where AI Overviews appear. If your content strategy still targets page-one rankings, you are optimising for a disappearing metric. Here is what actually works now.
Read →I Built AirTag in 1998
In 1998 I designed a GPS/ISM/GSM asset tracking system for logistics — the same architecture Apple shipped as AirTag 23 years later. It worked. It failed anyway. A story about innovation in Germany.
Read →I Flew Drones Before They Were Called Drones
In 2012 I was building and flying unmanned aerial systems for aerial photography — years before consumer drones existed. One day, control was lost. The recovery involved telemetry interpolation from a moving car and a lucky two-metre landing strip.
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