5 articles
The specification as the source of truth and code as a derived artifact. How the workflow actually looks, the real problem it attacks, the three traps teams hit with it in production, and the size of change where it stops paying off.
What changes when the migration of a Web Forms app —or any other legacy— to a modern stack is done with a coding agent: the seven steps I would not skip, the most expensive mistakes, and how to avoid ending up with a new legacy written in a newer language.
Archify is a free skill for Claude Code, Codex, Cursor, and opencode that draws verified architecture diagrams instead of invented ones: it splits writing a typed description of the system, validating it, and only then drawing it.
Your assistant answers general questions well but knows nothing about your database. Giving it access means writing an ordinary program. What MCP is, how to write one, and the three security mistakes that keep repeating.
Job queue, full-text search, cache, events and semantic search. Four services people tend to add to the stack that the database you already have can handle, with the exact SQL for each one.
