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Articles on delivery, architecture, governance and implementation.
Articles and notes on applied AI, software delivery, and system design. Practical implementation notes, architecture decisions, learning paths, and lessons from shipping production software.
Is software engineering quietly becoming implementation engineering?
AI agents write a lot of code now, and increasingly, whole systems ship as prebuilt blueprints. Not a claim that engineering is over, a look at what's actually shifting, and the questions that come with it.
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2026-08-20
AI
Building ShiftGreenBot: a RAG Product Finder
A walkthrough of the chatbot I built for the marketplace: how it turns plain language into grounded product recommendations using Azure OpenAI, MongoDB vector search, and a RAG flow.
11 min
2026-08-19
Architecture
Six decisions, five of them reversed, and one we never made at all
A multivendor marketplace went from a custom platform, to native Shopify, to Shopify's own headless stack, to a hand-rolled headless setup with Stripe carrying payments. Every technical decision was reasonable at the time. The one that mattered most was never made deliberately at all.
12 min