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A short document recording a single software architecture decision, its context, and rationale, used by teams to track design choices over time.
No evidence-backed relationships are recorded.
A dev.to practitioner gives about 100 of 2,000 agent-written lines a slow read and leaves every character to types, linters and tests. The routine only holds in a repo where those gates fail the build.
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The expensive failure in a memory-equipped code reviewer is a confident citation of a convention the team replaced six weeks earlier. This take-home package tries to score that on 260 lines of Python.
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The AI-Native SDLC playbook is right that generation stopped being the slow step, and its artifact chain is careful engineering. The deterministic hooks it ships as examples all evaluate a path, which is not how an architectural decision is scoped.
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The ten-line version they did not build put order and policy into a prompt and parsed a JSON verdict back out. It lost on testability, since the same order can return two answers and CI stays green while behavior drifts.
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A dev.to post argues that whole-repository access degrades an agent's judgment, because the contracts live in decisions nobody wrote down. The enforceable half of its fix is a CI rule, not a document.
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A devops.com essay revives the five-stage pipeline as a control structure for a probabilistic generator. The interesting claim is not about process, it is about the price of going backwards.
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A dev.to post argues coding agents fail because abandoned decisions and standing conventions come back with identical confidence. The proposed fix is a schema with explicit precedence.
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An InfoQ article puts AI judgment beside deterministic fitness functions rather than in front of them: scoped evidence, versioned rubrics, structured verdicts, humans on low confidence.
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A developer moved both routing decisions and code generation onto local models after round-the-clock agents made usage billing permanent. The CI arithmetic is published. The hardware price is not.
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