I'm Zach, a Principal based in Dallas, Texas. I help organizations make better technology decisions, from architecture strategy to AI-assisted delivery. I write about what I learn along the way.
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AI compresses feedback loops across the full delivery lifecycle. The teams that benefit most aren't using AI the hardest — they're restructuring around it.
When prototyping costs hours instead of weeks, failure becomes cheap education. AI gives junior developers the reps to become senior ones faster.
AI maps 95% of a legacy codebase in hours. But the last 5% — tribal knowledge, undocumented behavior, implicit contracts — will wreck your modernization.
AI makes prototyping so cheap that debating architecture at a whiteboard is no longer the default. Build both options and let evidence decide.
AI coding assistants boost productivity by 55%, but experienced architects get more value using AI as a virtual junior team for routine tasks.