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The Number of Agents Is a Cost, Not a Capability
multi-agent-systems

The Number of Agents Is a Cost, Not a Capability

The pitch for multi-agent AI is that more agents mean a more powerful system. I paid that bill once — a nine-year experiment in splitting a platform across twelve separately-owned teams — and here is what it taught me about why the agent count is a cost you pay, not a capability you gain.

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A Boundary You Don't Enforce Is Just a Wish
architecture-fitness-functions

A Boundary You Don't Enforce Is Just a Wish

I opened my own repo and found that the rule meant to police my architecture enforced nothing. Here is how I turned it into a fitness function that fails the build when any code — human or AI — crosses a line it shouldn't.

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Decisions You Don't Write Down Become Debt
software-architecture

Decisions You Don't Write Down Become Debt

In 2016, on my first architecture assignment, a mentor told me documentation was a deliverable as important as the code. Here is why the architectural decisions you don't write down always come back as debt.

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