A Synthesis Engineering Craft

Scaling Synthesis Coding in Your Organization

A practical guide for CTOs and engineering leaders: cost analysis, team rollout strategy, training curriculum, and metrics for adopting synthesis coding at s...

December 9, 2025·12 min read

Building ownwords: A Synthesis Coding Case Study

What separates synthesis coding from vibe coding isn''t the tools — it''s the decisions. This technical case study walks through the architectural choices,...

December 7, 2025·12 min read

Why Synthesis Coding Still Writes Code in the Age of LLMs

The answer is not "just let the model do it" — and code matters more, not less, as AI gets dramatically better Last spring, my son Fitz and I had an aftern...

December 4, 2025·15 min read

Polyrepo Synthesis: Synthesis Coding Across Multiple Repositories with Claude Code in Visual Studio Code

I wrote this blog post for software engineers, architects, and technical leads. It is code-heavy and implementation-focused. This weekend I was working acr...

November 30, 2025·16 min read

Seventeen years ago, I built a tool for the open Web. This weekend, I modernized it using Synthesis Coding with Claude Code AI

In 2008, I released a WordPress plugin called Blogroll Links. The plugin displayed lists of links on WordPress pages using a shortcode. But the idea behind...

November 29, 2025·8 min read

Synthesis Coding with Claude Code: Technical Implementation and Workflows

A hands-on guide to practicing synthesis coding (a.k.a. synthesis engineering) with concrete examples, real workflows, and lessons from production systems ...

November 9, 2025·20 min read

The Synthesis Engineering Framework: How Organizations Build Production Software with AI

From individual practice to organizational capability: a systematic approach to human-AI collaboration in professional software development This blog post ...

November 9, 2025·17 min read

Synthesis Engineering: The Professional Practice Emerging in AI-Assisted Development

Why the most effective engineering organizations are developing systematic approaches that go beyond vibe coding — and why this practice needs a name This ...

November 9, 2025·13 min read