The Deletion Test

UI Is a Conservation Layer

Why the user interface is the last to become regenerative

Provenance Is the New Version Control

n=1 Is a Design Constrain (Not a Staffing Model)

Single-developer capability isn’t a productivity story. It’s the test that tells you whether your architecture is worth keeping.

Relocating Rigor

The Discipline That Looks Like Recklessness

The System Is the Asset

Why Regeneration Does Not Mean Starting Over

Conceptual Mass and the Compaction Discipline

Immutable Infrastructure, Immutable Code

Why "Never Upgrade in Place" Now Applies to Software

Evaluations Are the Real Codebase

Why behavior outlives implementations

The Gradient of Trust

Better shapes beat better prompts

Compaction Is a Financial Strategy

Why smaller codebases win in the AI era

Code Was Never the Asset

Why AI makes the hidden economics of software unavoidable

Pace Layers and AI Integration

The Death and Rebirth of Programming

Programming didn't die all at once. There was no single moment, no dramatic obsolescence event. Instead, something quieter happened: the core constraint that shaped software for seventy years dissolved. Writing code stopped being the hard part.

Regenerative Software