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Notes from the architect’s desk

On architecture models, the software lifecycle, and what changes when coding agents join the team. Opinions, not announcements.

Tomasz Zajac 28 October 2026 7 min read

The context your agent needs has a name. It is the architecture model.

Agents read a folder of Markdown files before they write code and call it context. It is the architecture model, reinvented in part. What forty years of the discipline already settled, what the model has to contain, and how people and agents use it.