Coding agents, workflows, orchestration and platforms do four different jobs, and swapping one for another surfaces in production as an incident no test suite predicted.
We can’t expect a general-purpose model to know everything, but we can build a system around it that knows where to find that information and surfaces it as needed.
See how the modern AI stack connects to what developers already build and maintain. We’ll explore three patterns in this article: direct integration, retrieval-augmented and tool-using.
Good AI needs good IA. Information architecture is the old school skill designers and developers need to reclaim. Start with two things: reframe and relate.