Software Architecture
3 essays tagged “Software Architecture”.
March 24, 2026 · 7 min read
When AI Systems “Dream”: A Failure of Architecture, Not Models
A surprising number of AI failures in production are not hallucinations. They are systems behaving correctly inside the wrong structure.
March 17, 2026 · 4 min readAgents Are Actors With Intent, Not Guarantees
I was at dinner with one of the people who wrote the book on the actor model, over Chinese food, one of his favorites, when he asked me what an agent was.
I had been turning the …
January 24, 2026 · 4 min readWhen Inference Becomes Control
By the end of 2025, the fix for an unreliable agent had a shape, and the shape was more agents. The diagrams were everywhere: a supervisor agent checking a worker, an evaluator …