Axioms and Theorems of Human-AI Systems Engineering
A month of teaching an AI assistant to think in layers - and what it taught me about both of us. The problem AI coding assistants exhibit behavioral defaults consistent with training heavily weighted toward high-level application code - web frameworks, CRUD apps, data pipelines, React components. The exact composition of training data is not publicly documented, but the behavioral fingerprint is consistent and predictable: suggest the standard library, reach for the well-known tool, complete the task autonomously, provide a comprehensive solution. For the high-level application work that appears to dominate AI training data, these defaults are well-suited. ...