Software consultancy The Serverless Edge recently published this article about how llms are resurfacing previously held ideas about specification driven development.

Some key takeaways are:

1. "AI is making Spec-Driven Development practical at scale."

2. "Verification and validation matter more than code generation."

"Spec-Driven Development: Why AI Is Bringing an Old Software Engineering Idea Back to Life"

https://theserverlessedge.com/spec-driven-development-ai-software-engineering/

#softwareengineering #systemsarchitecture #llms #ai

Winding down at Orcfax: a retrospective

With the recent announcement that Orcfax is heading into operational mode, it’s a bittersweet moment that means our adventure in the web3 space is almost at an end.

Operational mode means that we are finally able to leave the systems that we have created running and publishing content all-day-every-day with minimal monitoring. Our salaries are paused and we won’t receive another paycheck

​#SERVICE_UPDATE: [2026-03]-SHAOLIN-ASCENSION

​We are moving away from the monolith toward a Tiered Token Architecture. The "Railgun" only fires at the intensity required for the "Fuel" provided.

​Introducing the Three Heavens:
🏮 Keren (Level 0)
🏮 Charlotte (Level 1)
🏮 Shiki (Level 2)

​The stack is tiered. The logic is sovereign.

​#ShaolinData #SystemsArchitecture #TokenTiering #TechUpdate

Stack Overflow Blog writer Isaac Lyman does a run-down of the documents a systems architect might need throughout the software development lifecycle.

His list of go-to documents include the following.

The Architecture Overview
The Dev Design
The Project Proposal
The Developer Forecast
The Technology Menu
The Problem Statement
The Postmortem

"Documents: The architect’s programming language"

https://stackoverflow.blog/2026/01/01/documents-the-architect-s-programming-language/

#technicalwriting #documents #systemsarchitecture #software #communication