The architecture of advice

Mon, 11 May 2026 00:00:00 +0000

In the last post I looked at the sheer volume of AI-assisted engineering: 55,000 turns of professional capital recovered from a single month. But once you have the data, you stop asking “how much?” and start asking “what kind?”

So I ran a high-fidelity thematic enrichment pass over 466 sessions from the corpus and started mapping what I’m calling the architecture of advice: the hidden patterns that define how AI actually influences a multi-repo technical portfolio.

30 days of AI collaboration

Thu, 07 May 2026 00:00:00 +0000

In the spring of 2026 I spent 30 days living in the “jagged frontier” of AI-assisted software engineering.

If you’ve worked with Claude Code, Gemini CLI, Cursor, or Codex you know the feeling. A high-intensity session ends, the terminal clears, and months of architectural decisions, debugging insights, and technical pivots vanish with the scrollback. The next morning you remember the outcome but not the reasoning that got you there.

I decided to stop losing that knowledge. This is the data-driven retrospective of 466 sessions, 55,224 turns, and 1,772 technical decisions recovered from a single month of work, and what I found when I went back through the corpus systematically.

PKM on Thede Technologies

The architecture of advice

30 days of AI collaboration