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This is the architecture tag archive on Will's Journal: every published post that shares this tag, listed in one place.

It is a collection page, not a topic essay — scan the cluster here instead of filtering the full journal index.

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Amber node beads on a dark rail. Thesis: ONE GIANT N8N CANVAS PRODUCTION. Automation

Why is one giant n8n canvas a production liability

One giant n8n canvas is a production liability because debug, credentials, retries, and deploys share one blast radius. Split it with named contracts.

33 MIN
A violet ring. Thesis: EVALUATOR PRODUCT. AI Agents

The Evaluator Is the Product

Agent accuracy did not come from a better prompt or a bigger model. It came from separating the thing that does the work from the thing that judges it.

12 MIN
A small stack of coins. Thesis: SINGLE AGENT FIRST SPLIT ONLY. AI Agents

Single Agent First: Split Only When Trust, Audience, or Timing Conflicts

Start with one agent and many tools. Split only when trust, audience, or timing conflict—and prove that split with pass rate, cost, and escalate rate.

26 MIN
Two clipped paper packets. Thesis: STATE MACHINES AGENT LOOPS DETERMINISM. AI Agents

State Machines for Agent Loops: Determinism Where It Matters

Give the model freedom inside a named state. Legal transitions, revision ceilings, and escalate paths keep operations deterministic when tokens are not.

26 MIN
A brushed metal coupon. Thesis: AGENT MEMORY PATTERNS PERSIST FORGET. AI Agents

Agent Memory Patterns: What to Persist, What to Forget

Agent memory is three stores, not a bigger window: working dies with the run, episodic is searchable history, and the store holds approved facts only.

19 MIN
A small text-file card with no glyphs. Thesis: FRACTIONAL AI CTO MODEL NEED. AI Agents

The Fractional AI CTO Model: When You Need Architecture, Not Another Chatbot

A fractional AI CTO owns architecture, evaluation standards, and a deploy gate — not a chatbot retainer. Hire one when colliding initiatives lack rails.

24 MIN
Amber node beads on a dark rail. Thesis: AGENT LOOP LLM WORKFLOW PICK. AI Agents

Agent Loop vs LLM-in-Workflow: Pick the Shape That Matches the Uncertainty

Most jobs need a workflow with one LLM step, not an agent loop. Use a three-tier test — certainty, branching, blast radius — then prove hybrid is enough.

18 MIN
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This is the architecture tag archive on Will's Journal: every published post that shares this tag, listed in one place.

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A list of posts. This page is a collection, not a topic essay — the 7 posts below are the architecture cluster on Will's Journal.