Insights on software engineering in the AI era.https://www.contextcost.dev/https://www.contextcost.dev/blog/architecture-aware-ai-agents/https://www.contextcost.dev/blog/architecture-aware-ai-agents/Twelve principles for designing AI agents that maintain architectural coherence while collaborating on complex software projects.Tue, 26 Aug 2025 00:00:00 GMThttps://www.contextcost.dev/blog/balastro-architecture/https://www.contextcost.dev/blog/balastro-architecture/Exploring how game development's ECS paradigm challenges traditional Clean Architecture, and why sometimes perfect order is the enemy of joy. A reflection on bureaucracy vs. emergence in software design.Sat, 10 Jan 2026 00:00:00 GMThttps://www.contextcost.dev/blog/beyond-vibe-coding/https://www.contextcost.dev/blog/beyond-vibe-coding/An exploration of why AI coding tools excel at simple tasks but struggle with complex, domain-heavy software engineering challenges.Mon, 14 Jul 2025 00:00:00 GMThttps://www.contextcost.dev/blog/context-conundrum/https://www.contextcost.dev/blog/context-conundrum/Exploring how abstraction, functional programming, and Clean Architecture help both humans and AI manage context complexity in software development.Sat, 02 Aug 2025 00:00:00 GMThttps://www.contextcost.dev/blog/context-engineering/https://www.contextcost.dev/blog/context-engineering/How the principles of software engineering become even more critical in the age of AI, with a focus on interfaces and SOLID principles as context management tools.Sat, 01 Nov 2025 00:00:00 GMThttps://www.contextcost.dev/blog/domain-driven-design-with-ai/https://www.contextcost.dev/blog/domain-driven-design-with-ai/How Domain-Driven Design provides a strategic framework for tackling complex, domain-heavy software projects with AI assistance.Sat, 02 Aug 2025 00:00:00 GMThttps://www.contextcost.dev/blog/history-of-ai-programming/https://www.contextcost.dev/blog/history-of-ai-programming/AI coding has replayed decades of software engineering in fast-forward — from vibe coding chaos, to spec-first echoes of waterfall, to agile design that makes systems changeable. Here's how to steer it.Fri, 05 Dec 2025 00:00:00 GMThttps://www.contextcost.dev/blog/multi-agent/https://www.contextcost.dev/blog/multi-agent/Why do we need multiple AI agents when one LLM can do everything? The answer isn't about skills—it's about memory isolation and context sharding. Exploring how Multi-Agent systems solve the attention problem through context separation.Mon, 26 Jan 2026 00:00:00 GMThttps://www.contextcost.dev/blog/skills-containerized-knowledge/https://www.contextcost.dev/blog/skills-containerized-knowledge/How AI Skills represent a fundamental shift: documents evolving from passive knowledge containers into executable programs that agents can run, humans can learn from, and teams can refine together.Tue, 23 Dec 2025 00:00:00 GMThttps://www.contextcost.dev/blog/dependancy-injection/https://www.contextcost.dev/blog/dependancy-injection/Dependency injection isn't just a clever technique—it's an evolutionary step that transforms codebases from self-sufficient systems into specialized, scalable architectures. Learn why DI matters beyond edge cases and how it enables teams to compound their work effectively.Mon, 29 Dec 2025 00:00:00 GMThttps://www.contextcost.dev/blog/the-missing-click/https://www.contextcost.dev/blog/the-missing-click/Exploring the subtle UX mistake of missing click targets and how to fix them.Fri, 21 Nov 2025 00:00:00 GMThttps://www.contextcost.dev/blog/whats-left-for-programmer/https://www.contextcost.dev/blog/whats-left-for-programmer/Code generation by AI is no longer a prediction—it's observable reality. But the work of solving real-world problems with software isn't going away. A framework for understanding what remains human territory: value judgments, problem definition, and the future of the software practitioner.Sat, 28 Feb 2026 00:00:00 GMThttps://www.contextcost.dev/blog/software-design-first-principle/https://www.contextcost.dev/blog/software-design-first-principle/Exploring the fundamental principles of software design through the lens of cognitive science and information theory. Understanding how limited cognitive bandwidth shapes architecture and why Context Engineering is the endgame of software engineering in the AI era.Sun, 11 Jan 2026 00:00:00 GMT