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

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