AI
3 engineering logs on AI. Newest first.
- Glue Work is the New System Design: Why Alignment is the Premium Skill in the Age of AI
AI makes code cheap. The expensive part is getting five teams, three regions, and two data stores to agree on what actually ships.
- The AI code review bottleneck: When writing code is 5x faster, but reviewing is 2x slower
Why AI speeds up code production while reviewers pay the latency tax of architecture and network validation.
- Instrumenting AI: Multi-master replication and the split brain problem
Why active-active embedding stores feel attractive, and why multi-master replication can trigger a split brain failure in AI infrastructure.