Notes on building software, scaling engineering teams, and where AI is taking all of it.https://salahmyn.me/en-ussalahmyn@gmail.com (Salah Al-Nawah)https://salahmyn.me/blog/changed-my-mind-on-purpose/https://salahmyn.me/blog/changed-my-mind-on-purpose/A hostile test: built a full Trello-style app under Lattice governance, planted a trap, then reversed a hard-delete decision mid-project. What held, what broke, and why 0.8.1 makes intent changes governed transactions.Sat, 20 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMTAI Engineeringsalahmyn@gmail.com (Salah Al-Nawah)https://salahmyn.me/blog/done-is-not-one-thing/https://salahmyn.me/blog/done-is-not-one-thing/Four different claims compressed into one word: declared, wired, correctly-meant, demonstrated. The meaning ceiling is the honest core — and steering for agent fleets lands too.Sat, 13 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMTAI Engineeringsalahmyn@gmail.com (Salah Al-Nawah)https://salahmyn.me/blog/if-constraints-are-free-which-constraints/https://salahmyn.me/blog/if-constraints-are-free-which-constraints/The April inversion said constraints are free for machines. It never said which constraints. Vertical slices, line caps, 500-word specs, and five structural checks that are true or false, nothing in between.Sat, 06 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMTAI Engineeringsalahmyn@gmail.com (Salah Al-Nawah)https://salahmyn.me/blog/question-the-stack-was-built-to-ask/https://salahmyn.me/blog/question-the-stack-was-built-to-ask/Three layers exist: requirements, features, code. I can finally compute the traceability matrix. Every criterion gets a blunt status — and I almost shipped the strong word for the weak fact.Sat, 30 May 2026 00:00:00 GMTAI Engineeringsalahmyn@gmail.com (Salah Al-Nawah)https://salahmyn.me/blog/requirements-layer/https://salahmyn.me/blog/requirements-layer/Features and entry points describe the system. Neither answers why it should exist. A BRD layer with provenance, approval, and drift detection — and the question of whether badges change behavior.Sat, 23 May 2026 00:00:00 GMTAI Engineeringsalahmyn@gmail.com (Salah Al-Nawah)https://salahmyn.me/blog/nobody-believes-json/https://salahmyn.me/blog/nobody-believes-json/I showed the graph to a friend. Polite silence. The same data as web pages? Questions about the system, not the tool. A Go binary now boots a local UI with live updates.Sat, 16 May 2026 00:00:00 GMTAI Engineeringsalahmyn@gmail.com (Salah Al-Nawah)https://salahmyn.me/blog/entry-points/https://salahmyn.me/blog/entry-points/I found a hole in the graph. Routes, CLI commands, cron jobs — the actual doors into the system. Entry points are now first-class artifacts, and dead code finally has a definition.Sat, 09 May 2026 00:00:00 GMTAI Engineeringsalahmyn@gmail.com (Salah Al-Nawah)https://salahmyn.me/blog/reality-check-1900-files/https://salahmyn.me/blog/reality-check-1900-files/The greenfield story was comfortable. Then I pointed the tool at a real Laravel codebase and built an import pipeline that drafts links itself — with provenance tracking.Sat, 02 May 2026 00:00:00 GMTAI Engineeringsalahmyn@gmail.com (Salah Al-Nawah)https://salahmyn.me/blog/constraints-free-machines/https://salahmyn.me/blog/constraints-free-machines/Every rule humans reject as too much friction costs a machine nothing. A Go CLI, tree-sitter, and a bet that deterministic knowledge graphs can replace the re-explaining ritual.Sat, 25 Apr 2026 00:00:00 GMTAI Engineeringsalahmyn@gmail.com (Salah Al-Nawah)https://salahmyn.me/blog/trap-of-vibe-coding/https://salahmyn.me/blog/trap-of-vibe-coding/We've automated the production of legacy code. A look at why AI-generated projects rot, what spec-driven frameworks get right (and wrong), and the three goals worth chasing.Sat, 18 Apr 2026 00:00:00 GMTAI Engineeringsalahmyn@gmail.com (Salah Al-Nawah)