Ethan Knox

Reflective generative AI software components as a development paradigm Ethan Knox · Follow Published in Towards Data Science · 14 min read · 14 hours ago — Nowhere has the proliferation of generative AI tooling been more aggressive than in the world of software development. It began with GitHub Copilot’s supercharged autocomplete, then exploded into direct code-along integrated tools like Aider and Cursor that allow software engineers to dictate instructions and have the generated changes

Dissecting the motivations, risks, and potential rewards of a software “heart transplant” Ethan Knox · Follow Published in Towards Data Science · 16 min read · 22 hours ago — evolution of the powertrain — AI generated image created by Midjourney v6.1 I was sketching out architectural recommendations for a client project that, after a successful POC, was ready for the prime-time of production software. I stopped to ask myself why the new arch diagram