Series
Postcards from My Edge
Engineering notes on adapting real development work to the era of AI.
Postcards from My Edge is an ongoing commentary on my personal experience adapting to the increasing involvement of AI in day-to-day software development.
The focus is not on theory or predictions about the future, but on what actually happens when these tools are introduced into real engineering work — what works, what fails, and how techniques evolve over time.
What This Series Explores
AI tools are changing how software is designed and built, but most discussion around them focuses on demos or isolated coding examples.
This series documents the practical side: how development workflows change when AI becomes part of the engineering process, and how those workflows continue to evolve with experience.
Current Posts
Dancing with Composer — and Knowing When to Lead
A small lesson in business process modeling in the age of AI — why upstream business logic matters more than code speed.
ChatGPT and Opus Sitting in a Tree: A Two-AI Development Workflow
How separating AI roles into design and implementation transformed a manual software documentation system into an automated discovery platform.
Journey: Three Generations of Caching Architecture
A real-world look at how a production system's caching architecture evolved over time and why simple performance ideas can become surprisingly complex.
New posts will appear here as the series continues.