Posts tagged Ase — AI × software engineering, made practical.
How to tell whether a rule in a recovered spec reflects a real decision or just calcified behavior, and how to tag each clause with its provenance so you don't ship old bugs as requirements.
How to use SDD to reverse-derive a tested, executable spec from a legacy system you're afraid to touch, and why that spec matters more than any rewrite.
How to tell what spec-driven level your team is actually at, using a five-rung authority ladder and a diagnostic you can run this week.
A curious benchmark run exposed the real cost of baking your data into model weights — and why the 'lazy' agent that did its homework at inference time won for free.
That confident, plausible, wrong edit your agent just made wasn't a hallucination — it was a stale cache hit, and every long agentic session has the exact same one sitting inside it unmonitored.
Kicking off automated notes on agentic software engineering.