Three ways in, one afternoon of reading
The guide is short by design — built to be read once, then kept close while you're actually building.
The Article
"Software Systems Design in the Age of LLMs" — a working proposal for naming and diagramming the discipline of building large systems with AI collaborators.
The Lectures
A curated watch list — talks and conversations on context management, planning for the future, and keeping fundamentals intact while AI writes the code.
The Reflection
Ten pointed questions about testing, architecture, copyright, and process — the ones worth sitting with before your next AI-assisted build.
Why your team needs a shared vocabulary
"If the main job of a programmer is to make code easily interpretable by another programmer, let's not forget that this programmer may also be — increasingly often — an artificial intelligence."
Every week brings a new technique for agent-assisted development. What's missing isn't more technique — it's a common language for describing systems clearly enough that both humans and AI tools can build from the same design.
The guide walks through why naming this discipline matters, what's wrong with reaching for UML by default, and what a next-generation notation for AI-era systems design might need to do differently.
Built on conversations worth your time
The guide's recommended lectures draw from people actively shaping how software gets designed and built alongside AI.
Dex Horthy
On staying out of the "dumb zone" — managing context instead of flooding your AI with instructions.
Kent Beck
On planning code structure so it can actually scale to accommodate the features you haven't built yet.
Robert "Uncle Bob" Martin
Author of Clean Code, in conversation about fundamentals that still matter when AI writes the first draft.
Matt Pocock
Creator of widely-used LLM skills, discussing where old-generation discipline meets new-generation tooling.
Five of the ten questions inside
Pause here. The point isn't a quick answer — it's a better question.
The other five are in the guide — including the one about whether unit tests still matter at all.
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