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This site is one long argument, told across ~175 posts and four deep guides: the way you get value from AI is by building infrastructure and method around it — not by prompting harder. Encoded knowledge compounds; improvisation doesn't. And an agent you can't defend is a liability, not an asset.

That thesis has two faces. Skill-Driven Development is how a person or team compounds capability with AI. Defendable Agents is how an agent's decisions become reproducible and evidenced. The Knowledge Context Protocol is the substrate underneath both, and the agentic web is the world they're built for. Compound and defendable are the same infrastructure seen from two angles.

Pick the lane that fits what you're trying to do.

• I build software with AI

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  Start with the method, then the receipts.

  • Skill-Driven Development — the method, in one page
  • The Compound Developer
  • Why Exploration Beats Specification
  • Building Together: An 11-Day Human-AI Collaboration
  • The Hallucination Tax

• I design systems & architecture

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  Forty years of architecture, re-examined for the agentic era.

  • The Agentic Web — the map
  • Three Decades of Architecture: What AI Actually Changes
  • Five Architecture Patterns for AI Agents That Actually Work
  • Production Scars Are Architecture
  • The Knowledge Context Protocol

• I own security, risk, or compliance

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  Making AI agents defendable to an auditor, a regulator, or a board.

  • Defendable Agents — the full field guide
  • Your AI Agent Does Not Know the Law (and How to Fix That)
  • Control Mapping: SOC 2 / ISO 27001 / GDPR
  • A Defendable HR Agent on a Regulatory Knowledge Web

• I'm just curious where this goes

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  The big-picture arc, in the author's voice.

  • Six Months Down the Rabbit Hole — the retrospective
  • The Vibes-Based Agent Era Deserves to End
  • The Zombie in the Basement
  • The Mirror Test

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Prefer to wander?

• The four guides: Knowledge Context Protocol · Skill-Driven Development · Defendable Agents · The Agentic Web
• The writing: the latest posts, or browse by topic
• Lost in the jargon? the Glossary has one-line definitions of everything
• Who's behind this: About Thor — four decades of shipping, Java Champion, co-founder of JavaZone

Everything here is developed in the open. If a post changed your mind — or didn't — I'd like to hear it.