Architecture & Design
How systems are shaped — software, organisations, and the world they make.
Your AI Architecture Is a Company
Agents are employees, tools are their hands, skills are their training. The math of coordination and the economics of the firm both point to the same answer: a few capable agents reporting to a spine that remembers.
PumuloJune 12, 2026agentsarchitectureautomationgovernanceJudge the Worst, Not the Best
Every era of enterprise software seduces us with its best example. The mature question, and the one almost nobody is asking about AI-built systems, is about the worst one.
PumuloJune 3, 2026agentic-aienterprise-architecturegovernancevibe-codingpegaworldInside Cambium: The Architecture of a Bounded-Agent System
A walk through Cambium from the inside — three bounded call sites, a deterministic spine, an eval framework, signed provenance, and a privacy architecture that holds the trust mechanism in code rather than in promises.
Pumulo SikanetaMay 17, 2026agentic-aibounded-agentscambiumai-architecturesystems-designThe Dinner That Almost Went Wrong: An Architectural Question Hiding in Plain Sight
A dinner for five guests, a near-miss with a shellfish-allergic friend, and the architectural gap inside the AI systems being deployed at scale where the watching is thinning out.
Pumulo SikanetaMay 17, 2026agentic-aibounded-agentsai-architectureai-governancesystems-designThe Multipolar Agentic Era
Who is actually building this, and what they are actually saying. A global voice survey across the foundation labs, the platform vendors, the bank CIOs, the sovereign capital pools, and the political leaders shaping the agentic transition.
Pumulo SikanetaMay 3, 2026agentic-aigeopoliticssovereign-aifoundation-modelsmultipolarInsight Belongs to the Machine. Decisions Belong to the Human.
An architecture for accountable AI in regulated enterprises. Why insight belongs to the model, decisions belong to deterministic systems, and the difference is what passes an audit.
Pumulo SikanetaMay 1, 2026agentic-aiarchitectureregulated-industriesgovernanceworkflowllm