AI Adoption
Agent Harness vs Work Harness: One Term, Two Systems, Two Owners
AI harness means two things: the agent harness you buy and the work harness you build. A layered map - and why the layer you build is where your leverage is.
·16 min read
AI Adoption
How we bring AI into real engineering work: adoption patterns, the Harness Model, and lessons from hands-on delivery, from Hands-on Architects.
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AI Adoption
Team Topologies in the AI Era: Where Does the Cognitive Load Go?
Re-reading Team Topologies for the AI harness era: the harness relocates cognitive load, it does not remove it - and each team type feels it differently.
·17 min read
AI Adoption
When the Weakest Dimension Wins: Architectural Governance at Scale
On AI platforms, architectural governance is the weakest dimension that decides what ships. Learn to treat context engineering as architectural practice.
·24 min read
AI Adoption
E2E test harness for AI agents: better specs, not smarter models
How we built an E2E test harness for AI agents on a Spring Boot service: domain aggregates and SCNs cut commits per test step 5x at flat CI time.
·33 min read
AI Adoption
The Harness Model - AI Engineering Maturity Matrix, Q1 2026
A 10-dimension maturity matrix for AI engineering teams. Assess where you are, from chatbot-assisted to agentic flywheel, and build the harness that matters.
·21 min read
AI Adoption
How to Start using AI in Software Development Today
A practical guide to your first AI-assisted development experiment. Start small, build calibrated trust, and learn context engineering in under an hour.
·10 min read
AI Adoption
AI Toolset for Software Architects (Q1 2026)
Our Q1 2026 AI toolset for software architects - five categories from research to QA, prompt engineering as a discipline, and practical lessons from the field.
·17 min read
AI Adoption
What makes an MCP server successful?
Understand key factors contributing to the success of an MCP server through architecture, design, and implementation analysis of Context7 - the most popular MCP server
·32 min read
AI Adoption
AI Toolset for Software Architects (Q3 2025)
A short overview of AI tools for architecture-aware prototyping and knowledge-driven design workflows that we currently use and explore as software architects.
·5 min read
AI Adoption
Using generative AI as an architect buddy for creating architecture decision records
In this article, we’ll share our experiences with leveraging AI to efficiently generate high-quality Architecture Decision Records. We'll discuss practical techniques, provide examples, and outline the benefits and challenges we've encountered.
·6 min read