The Architect's Instinct

We are living through a strange professional silence. Many of us use AI every day while feeling a quiet guilt about it. We worry that by offloading the labor of coding, we are offloading our value as engineers. We reach for the tool because it works. Then we wonder what it means that we needed it. The discomfort is not about the technology. It is the sense that we are moving faster than we can think. ...

April 23, 2026 · 3 min · Sean Escriva

Code as the new Latin

There’s a thought provoking article by David Mitchell at The Guardian site right now. It’s relatively short and worth reading, and I say that even as someone who isn’t all that interested in the NHS project that frames the article’s opening paragraphs. Mitchell makes two points that I found myself both agreeing with as a developer and sysadmin, and leading me to further thought. First, from David Mitchell in I want to talk to you about the NHS… ...

December 11, 2011 · 4 min · Sean Escriva