Writing
On systems, architecture, governance, and what it means to build in the age of agents.
2026
Mar 20 The Puzzle: Sorting the Pieces of Agentic Governance The governance landscape for agentic AI is fragmented across fifteen frameworks, standards, and research programs. AGF sorts the pieces into a coherent reference architecture. Mar 19 From Architecture to Governance: What Building Agentic Systems Taught Me About What's Actually Missing What started as an architecture framework for agentic systems grew into something larger. Here's how AFAS became the Agentic Governance Framework. Feb 25 Who Is This Agent? Trust and Identity in Multi-Agent Systems How traditional identity models break at the first delegation hop in multi-agent systems — and what trust and authority attenuation require instead. Feb 24 Building Agentic Systems Without a Blueprint Organizations are deploying agentic AI without architectural discipline. Here's what that failure mode looks like — and what the design layer needs to provide. Feb 22 Governance at Velocity and Scale How design-time and runtime governance differ in agentic systems — and why HITL, AITL, and HOTL are architecture decisions, not operations ones. Feb 20 The Intent Thread: How to Keep Agentic Systems Connected to Their Goals How agentic systems lose their goals at delegation boundaries — and the structural pattern that keeps intent intact through every hop. Feb 16 What an Agent Actually Is The six components that make up an agent and the system around it — the architectural vocabulary that governance requires. Feb 13 Deployed Is Not Done Deployment isn't the finish line — it's the moment your system enters a living ecosystem. Durable is what we're building toward. Feb 9 The 5 Dimensions of a Durable System Building is becoming the easy part. Making something durable — that's where the real work lives. Feb 3 The Architecture Imperative: Why EA Is the Discipline That Ties It All Together After nine months of building, writing, and thinking — here's where it all converges. Jan 28 Building an AI-Native Portfolio Why I built this site with Astro, AI agents, and zero compromises on performance. Jan 22 Risk Doesn't Shrink When Headcount Does The lean agent-powered organization still needs someone accountable for what goes wrong. Jan 15 I'm Directing Five Agents Right Now. In Six Months, That Number Doubles. What I'm learning about human-agent collaboration at the edge of what's currently possible. Jan 6 The Architect, the Governor, the Reviewer: How the Human Role Is Evolving We're not being replaced. We're being repositioned — and the work that remains is the work that matters most.
2025
Dec 29 Smaller Companies, More Agents, More Governance — Not Less When you replace headcount with agents, the need for oversight doesn't shrink. It concentrates. Dec 14 NIST Frameworks Were Aspirational. Now They Can Be Operational. The gap was never the guidance. It was the ability to implement it at speed. Dec 3 Governance: From the Backseat to the Driver's Seat Risk, governance, and architecture have been second-class citizens for decades. The agentic era demands we finally make them first-class. Nov 27 We Couldn't Keep Up. That's Changing. Business velocity has been outpacing governance for years. The agentic era either fixes that or makes it catastrophically worse. Nov 15 Why the Best AI Teams Will Think Like Architects The competitive advantage in agentic AI isn't model access. It's architectural discipline. Nov 4 Documentation Used to Be Dead Weight. Now It's the Seatbelt. What changed isn't the importance of documentation. It's our ability to actually maintain it. Oct 28 Learn to Go Slow Before You Can Go Fast The marathon training principle that applies to building agentic systems. Oct 14 Structure Enables Speed Architecture and governance were always meant to enable business. We finally have the tools to make that real. Oct 1 The Loose Wheel Problem At 10 miles an hour, you don't notice it. At 200, the wheels come off. Sep 18 What TOGAF and SABSA Have to Do with Your AI Strategy Established architecture frameworks aren't relics. They're exactly what agentic systems need — with a fresh lens. Sep 2 Your Agents Need Better Instructions Than Your Team Did We used to rely on human judgment to fill in the gaps. Agents don't have that luxury. Aug 19 Enterprise Architecture: The Secret Sauce Missing from AI Project Success AI projects aren't failing because the technology doesn't work. They're failing because many organizations don't have a solid foundation for building complex systems. Aug 5 Modularity Isn't Optional for Agentic Systems If you can't swap a component without breaking everything, you don't have architecture — you have an accident waiting to happen. Jul 22 The Primitives Problem: Why Most AI Projects Never Leave the Lab It's not the models. It's that organizations don't understand what they're actually building with. Jul 7 Context Is Architecture The discipline everyone in agentic AI already practices — they just don't call it that. Jun 9 What Enterprise Architecture Taught Me About Building AI Systems The skills that matter most for AI aren't what you'd expect. May 18 After Decades in Enterprise IT, I Started Building with AI Agents What happens when an enterprise architect picks up agentic tools and starts building.