Chad Fowler
@chadfowler.com
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Author, musician, speaker, developer
https://chadfowler.com/
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Author, musician, speaker, developer
https://chadfowler.com/
I'm on Germ DM 🔑
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A team generates forty services in two weeks. Three months later, no one knows which validation logic is canonical and nothing can be safely deleted. That's the real industrialization problem. New post in #ThePhoenixArchitecture
The Industrialization of Regenerative Software
aicoding.leaflet.pub
February 12, 2026 at 4:17 AM
A team generates forty services in two weeks. Three months later, no one knows which validation logic is canonical and nothing can be safely deleted. That's the real industrialization problem. New post in #ThePhoenixArchitecture
Who else is working on rebooting irc as an AT-proto adjacent modernized, secure-by-default infrastructure layer for many to many chat?
February 11, 2026 at 2:45 AM
Who else is working on rebooting irc as an AT-proto adjacent modernized, secure-by-default infrastructure layer for many to many chat?
Looking forward to being there!
Yes we know people are chomping at the bit to hear about their speaking slots and travel support.
Finalizing this week!
Finalizing this week!
As part of the CFP process, we had people tell us whether they needed support in order to come join us in person. We prioritized active speakers and community participants in making our selections.
We'll be announcing our accepted speakers and stipend recipients this week.
We'll be announcing our accepted speakers and stipend recipients this week.
February 11, 2026 at 2:27 AM
Looking forward to being there!
The biggest blocker in using AI is being afraid or unused to asking for audacious things.
One of the amazing unlocks about these agentic coding systems that have sprung up in the past couple of weeks is that the existing claude code / pi systems can be told to go learn how to use them and employ them for a project.
February 11, 2026 at 2:27 AM
The biggest blocker in using AI is being afraid or unused to asking for audacious things.
One of the amazing unlocks about these agentic coding systems that have sprung up in the past couple of weeks is that the existing claude code / pi systems can be told to go learn how to use them and employ them for a project.
February 11, 2026 at 2:26 AM
One of the amazing unlocks about these agentic coding systems that have sprung up in the past couple of weeks is that the existing claude code / pi systems can be told to go learn how to use them and employ them for a project.
Reposted by Chad Fowler
I've been reading through @chadfowler.com's Phoenix Architecture series and find the whole idea compelling. Regeneration over maintenance, durable evaluations over precious code, n=1 as a design constraint. My only wish: less philosophy, more practical recipes.
aicoding.leaflet.pub
aicoding.leaflet.pub
The Phoenix Architecture
Generative AI coding demands what we've always known: modularity, clear boundaries, disposable components. Principles that scaled human teams are now table stakes. Here, we make the implicit explicit
aicoding.leaflet.pub
February 10, 2026 at 9:08 AM
I've been reading through @chadfowler.com's Phoenix Architecture series and find the whole idea compelling. Regeneration over maintenance, durable evaluations over precious code, n=1 as a design constraint. My only wish: less philosophy, more practical recipes.
aicoding.leaflet.pub
aicoding.leaflet.pub
testing a weird new thing
February 10, 2026 at 8:53 PM
testing a weird new thing
I'm still actively working on this series on The Phoenix Architecture, but I've taken a pause in posting while I think about a new angle related to source control.
In the meantime, if you haven't already been following I'd love to hear more thoughts aicoding.leaflet.pub
In the meantime, if you haven't already been following I'd love to hear more thoughts aicoding.leaflet.pub
The Phoenix Architecture
Generative AI coding demands what we've always known: modularity, clear boundaries, disposable components. Principles that scaled human teams are now table stakes. Here, we make the implicit explicit
aicoding.leaflet.pub
February 5, 2026 at 1:59 PM
I'm still actively working on this series on The Phoenix Architecture, but I've taken a pause in posting while I think about a new angle related to source control.
In the meantime, if you haven't already been following I'd love to hear more thoughts aicoding.leaflet.pub
In the meantime, if you haven't already been following I'd love to hear more thoughts aicoding.leaflet.pub
And with LLMs, it's never been easier to jump right in. YOLO
there has never been a better time to get terminal-pilled
File system wins. The combination of agents + plain text data + file system is almost too powerful.
February 5, 2026 at 1:18 PM
And with LLMs, it's never been easier to jump right in. YOLO
Reposted by Chad Fowler
One of the interesting and valuable side effects of a provenance graph might be that any unambiguity in the nodes should force clarification of intent
A push force similar to a high-level engineer asking questions to define "what is this system REALLY supposed to do"
A push force similar to a high-level engineer asking questions to define "what is this system REALLY supposed to do"
Git is great at telling you what changed.It’s getting worse at telling you why.When code is regenerable, version control has to move upstream to intent, plans, and provenance.
Throw in some content addressing, and we have ourselves a plan!
Throw in some content addressing, and we have ourselves a plan!
Provenance Is the New Version Control
aicoding.leaflet.pub
January 27, 2026 at 10:22 PM
One of the interesting and valuable side effects of a provenance graph might be that any unambiguity in the nodes should force clarification of intent
A push force similar to a high-level engineer asking questions to define "what is this system REALLY supposed to do"
A push force similar to a high-level engineer asking questions to define "what is this system REALLY supposed to do"
Reposted by Chad Fowler
2026 is the year we will stop hand-writing code and fully mechanize software engineering.
This might sound like hype. And certainly there’s a lot of hype going around! But something substantial lies underneath the bluster.
Here’s how I’m thinking about it.
This might sound like hype. And certainly there’s a lot of hype going around! But something substantial lies underneath the bluster.
Here’s how I’m thinking about it.
January 27, 2026 at 3:58 PM
2026 is the year we will stop hand-writing code and fully mechanize software engineering.
This might sound like hype. And certainly there’s a lot of hype going around! But something substantial lies underneath the bluster.
Here’s how I’m thinking about it.
This might sound like hype. And certainly there’s a lot of hype going around! But something substantial lies underneath the bluster.
Here’s how I’m thinking about it.
Reposted by Chad Fowler
Personally I think the 2nd Amendment isn't worth keeping. However, gun rights advocates don't get to have it both ways: either the 2nd Amendment is a consitutional right or it's not. You don't get to pick and choose when it is because you don't like who is exercising their rights.
January 25, 2026 at 3:33 PM
Personally I think the 2nd Amendment isn't worth keeping. However, gun rights advocates don't get to have it both ways: either the 2nd Amendment is a consitutional right or it's not. You don't get to pick and choose when it is because you don't like who is exercising their rights.
Reposted by Chad Fowler
Breaking News from the New York Times: TikTok has been sold!
Tens of thousands of users have poured into @skylight.social this week ✨
To everyone who is new here: Welcome!! It’s so lovely to have you 🥰
Drop your handle in the comments and say hi 👋
#breakingnews #tiktoksale #skylightsocial
Tens of thousands of users have poured into @skylight.social this week ✨
To everyone who is new here: Welcome!! It’s so lovely to have you 🥰
Drop your handle in the comments and say hi 👋
#breakingnews #tiktoksale #skylightsocial
January 23, 2026 at 3:36 AM
Breaking News from the New York Times: TikTok has been sold!
Tens of thousands of users have poured into @skylight.social this week ✨
To everyone who is new here: Welcome!! It’s so lovely to have you 🥰
Drop your handle in the comments and say hi 👋
#breakingnews #tiktoksale #skylightsocial
Tens of thousands of users have poured into @skylight.social this week ✨
To everyone who is new here: Welcome!! It’s so lovely to have you 🥰
Drop your handle in the comments and say hi 👋
#breakingnews #tiktoksale #skylightsocial
Reposted by Chad Fowler
I’m coming to realize there are two kinds of people in this country: those who think there’s too much suffering in the world, and those who think there’s not enough.
January 24, 2026 at 9:51 PM
I’m coming to realize there are two kinds of people in this country: those who think there’s too much suffering in the world, and those who think there’s not enough.
Reposted by Chad Fowler
Chad’s blog is hitting an interesting spot of being insightful while also somehow sounding like the text was heavily workshopped by GPT
Deleting code shouldn’t feel existential.
If it does, it means the implementation is carrying meaning that should live somewhere else.
That fear is a signal, not a failure.
If it does, it means the implementation is carrying meaning that should live somewhere else.
That fear is a signal, not a failure.
The Deletion Test
aicoding.leaflet.pub
January 24, 2026 at 5:04 AM
Chad’s blog is hitting an interesting spot of being insightful while also somehow sounding like the text was heavily workshopped by GPT
New record coming out next month with, among a host of great musicians, one of my teenage jazz heroes, Ra Kalam Bob Moses.
I love the last two pieces especially.
mahakalamusic.bandcamp.com/album/memphi...
I love the last two pieces especially.
mahakalamusic.bandcamp.com/album/memphi...
Memphis Mandala, by Art Edmaiston / Chad Fowler
8 track album
mahakalamusic.bandcamp.com
January 24, 2026 at 5:04 AM
New record coming out next month with, among a host of great musicians, one of my teenage jazz heroes, Ra Kalam Bob Moses.
I love the last two pieces especially.
mahakalamusic.bandcamp.com/album/memphi...
I love the last two pieces especially.
mahakalamusic.bandcamp.com/album/memphi...
Deleting code shouldn’t feel existential.
If it does, it means the implementation is carrying meaning that should live somewhere else.
That fear is a signal, not a failure.
If it does, it means the implementation is carrying meaning that should live somewhere else.
That fear is a signal, not a failure.
The Deletion Test
aicoding.leaflet.pub
January 24, 2026 at 4:45 AM
Deleting code shouldn’t feel existential.
If it does, it means the implementation is carrying meaning that should live somewhere else.
That fear is a signal, not a failure.
If it does, it means the implementation is carrying meaning that should live somewhere else.
That fear is a signal, not a failure.
Reposted by Chad Fowler
This is big and important... more evidence of the protocol evolving in useful ways. Very exciting.
Leaflet is on @standard.site!
A big joint effort — and we're finishing a big migration to get Leaflet records standard-site-ified :) Log in to Leaflet & you'll be migrated automatically.
Read this post for details, and let us know any q's.
Social publishing. Atmospheric publishing. Together!
A big joint effort — and we're finishing a big migration to get Leaflet records standard-site-ified :) Log in to Leaflet & you'll be migrated automatically.
Read this post for details, and let us know any q's.
Social publishing. Atmospheric publishing. Together!
Leaflet, standard.site, and open social publishing!
Lab Notes 021: launching a set of shared standards for social publishing, migrating Leaflet to use these new lexicons, and how we plan to grow publishing × open social together!
lab.leaflet.pub
January 23, 2026 at 11:40 PM
This is big and important... more evidence of the protocol evolving in useful ways. Very exciting.
Reposted by Chad Fowler
This looks and sounds like a letter read aloud in a Wes Anderson movie by one of his precocious boys or broken men
January 23, 2026 at 2:38 AM
This looks and sounds like a letter read aloud in a Wes Anderson movie by one of his precocious boys or broken men
Reposted by Chad Fowler
Only if you maintain it!
Otherwise, it’s just a data transform.
Data, of course, is the real liability.
Otherwise, it’s just a data transform.
Data, of course, is the real liability.
January 24, 2026 at 12:53 AM
Only if you maintain it!
Otherwise, it’s just a data transform.
Data, of course, is the real liability.
Otherwise, it’s just a data transform.
Data, of course, is the real liability.
Reposted by Chad Fowler
Related reason might be that UI is the (one of the) slowest "pace layers" in the system, where user expectations and skill are built up over time, making change quite expensive and often rejected.
@chadfowler.com explores this idea over here: aicoding.leaflet.pub/3mcxo5ojob22c
@chadfowler.com explores this idea over here: aicoding.leaflet.pub/3mcxo5ojob22c
UI Is a Conservation Layer - The Phoenix Architecture
Why the user interface is the last to become regenerative
aicoding.leaflet.pub
January 22, 2026 at 5:22 PM
Related reason might be that UI is the (one of the) slowest "pace layers" in the system, where user expectations and skill are built up over time, making change quite expensive and often rejected.
@chadfowler.com explores this idea over here: aicoding.leaflet.pub/3mcxo5ojob22c
@chadfowler.com explores this idea over here: aicoding.leaflet.pub/3mcxo5ojob22c
Reposted by Chad Fowler
@chadfowler.com’s writing on regenerative code has been great aicoding.leaflet.pub
Not just infrastructure-as-code, but prompt & specs as code?
Not just infrastructure-as-code, but prompt & specs as code?
The Phoenix Architecture
Generative AI coding demands what we've always known: modularity, clear boundaries, disposable components. Principles that scaled human teams are now table stakes. Here, we make the implicit explicit
aicoding.leaflet.pub
January 24, 2026 at 2:00 AM
@chadfowler.com’s writing on regenerative code has been great aicoding.leaflet.pub
Not just infrastructure-as-code, but prompt & specs as code?
Not just infrastructure-as-code, but prompt & specs as code?
Reposted by Chad Fowler
Really great article!
At the earliest phases of software development, you can cheaply prototype different UIs, but once usage has ingrained into habit, care is required.
At the earliest phases of software development, you can cheaply prototype different UIs, but once usage has ingrained into habit, care is required.
January 21, 2026 at 10:26 PM
Really great article!
At the earliest phases of software development, you can cheaply prototype different UIs, but once usage has ingrained into habit, care is required.
At the earliest phases of software development, you can cheaply prototype different UIs, but once usage has ingrained into habit, care is required.
AI makes UI changes cheap. Users make them expensive.
If your system regenerates all the way up to the interface, you haven’t built something adaptive.
You’ve built a forgetting machine.
If your system regenerates all the way up to the interface, you haven’t built something adaptive.
You’ve built a forgetting machine.
UI Is a Conservation Layer
Why the user interface is the last to become regenerative
aicoding.leaflet.pub
January 21, 2026 at 9:58 PM
AI makes UI changes cheap. Users make them expensive.
If your system regenerates all the way up to the interface, you haven’t built something adaptive.
You’ve built a forgetting machine.
If your system regenerates all the way up to the interface, you haven’t built something adaptive.
You’ve built a forgetting machine.