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Fundamentals First, Part 4. The AI steps into your codebase with no memory and sees a web of modules that can all import each other — not the map you hold in your head. On Ousterhout's deep modules, the codebase-design / design-an-interface skills, and a .NET orchestration stack collapsed behind one door.
Fundamentals First, Part 3. The AI keeps re-explaining your own domain back to you, and the good words you finally agree on evaporate when the session ends. On Eric Evans's ubiquitous language, the domain-modeling skill, and tinkforge's CONTEXT.md — the glossary that stops the AI from talking past you, and from building things that shouldn't exist.
Fundamentals First, Part 2. The AI keeps building something other than what you pictured — because no one, you included, knows exactly what they want until they're made to say it. On Matt Pocock's grill-me skill, Fred Brooks's design concept, and earning a shared picture before you write a line of code.
Opening Fundamentals First — a series on building with AI. The premise: AI didn't make the codebase matter less. It made architecture, domain modeling, and judgment matter more.