A Synthesis Engineering Craft

The research lineage from recursive neural networks to human-AI collaborative development

Tracing the intellectual thread from Richard Socher's compositional representations through DecaNLP to the systems-level engineering challenges of human-AI soft

January 18, 2026·12 min read

From learned representations to engineered context: what Richard Socher's research tells us about working with AI

Richard Socher's research arc — from GloVe to DecaNLP to 'managers of AI' — maps directly onto the principles behind synthesis coding. The connections are struc

January 11, 2026·9 min read