Purposes
Why are we building this, and whose purposes count? Requests that arrive as solutions; purposes that keep changing.
Meta-Rational Software Development with Engineering Skills for AI
Ten situations where a rational software process loses contact with reality, and where Matt Pocock's engineering skills for AI coding agents let you get it back.
Ontology
What things are we talking about? Data models that break on reality; one word with many meanings.
Building
Making progress when you do not yet know enough: spikes, shaping work, and software that does what was asked and is still wrong.
Maintaining
Living with the code that exists: big balls of mud, and bugs that defy understanding.
Judgment
The developer as the instrument: knowing what not to build, and growing from craftsman to meta-rational engineer.