Adrian Bolboaca

Intent Engineering: A New Paradigm for AI Software Development

Adrian Bolboaca — Fri, 26 Jun 2026 07:11:31 +0000

Intent Engineering reframes AI software development around product intent rather than source code. By combining conceptual integrity, executable specifications, AI synthesis, and adversarial cooperation, it creates a continuous validation loop where software is generated, challenged, corrected, and kept aligned with the original product vision.

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Product Development with Gen AI Lightning Talk @Product Jam 2026

Adrian Bolboaca — Thu, 18 Jun 2026 14:52:24 +0000

A few weeks ago, I had the opportunity to speak at Product Jam 2026, organized by the wonderful Product Makers Romania community. Eight minutes were enough to explain Gen AI, software architecture, testing, operations, product thinking, and the future of software engineering. Constraints are useful, they force clarity. Compressing months of ideas and several long-form…

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Tester View: Breaking the System with Intent

Adrian Bolboaca — Mon, 08 Jun 2026 08:22:43 +0000

This article is part of the broader series Product Development with Gen AI – Feedback Cycles, where I explore how different roles in product development contribute feedback loops that keep AI-generated outputs aligned with business intent, architecture, usability, operational reality, and long-term system coherence. In the original article, I explored the idea that Gen AI…

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Ops View: Gen AI Meets Reality in Production

Adrian Bolboaca — Wed, 20 May 2026 07:51:12 +0000

This article is part of the broader series Product Development with Gen AI – Feedback Cycles, where I explore how different roles in product development contribute feedback loops that keep AI-generated outputs aligned with business intent, architecture, usability, operational reality, and long-term system coherence. The original article introduced the core idea that Gen AI does…

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Software Architect View: Gen AI Guardrails Over Genius

Adrian Bolboaca — Mon, 18 May 2026 06:53:56 +0000

This article is part of the broader series Product Development with Gen AI using Feedback Cycles, where I explore how different roles in product development contribute feedback loops that keep AI-generated outputs aligned with business intent, architecture, usability, and operational reality. In the original article, I explored the idea that Gen AI does not become…

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Product Owner View: Gen AI Needs Product Feedback, Not Just Prompts

Adrian Bolboaca — Fri, 15 May 2026 09:41:02 +0000

This article is part of the broader series Product Development with Gen AI – Feedback Cycles, where I explore how different roles in product development contribute feedback loops that keep AI-generated outputs aligned with intent, architecture, usability, and operational reality. In the main article, I argue that Gen AI does not become reliable through better…

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Enabling Constraints in Digital Product Ownership & Management

Adrian Bolboaca — Thu, 30 Apr 2026 18:49:12 +0000

The Idea This idea didn’t come from a textbook or a framework slide deck, it emerged from many conversations about how to make systems better. Across teams, organizations, and roles, one pattern kept showing up: people were either struggling with too many rules or not enough structure, but very few were consciously using enabling constraints.…

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Product Development with Gen AI using Feedback Cycles

Adrian Bolboaca — Thu, 16 Apr 2026 11:55:50 +0000

TL;DR Gen AI becomes reliable not through better prompts, but through layered feedback cycles that continuously align outputs with intent. When working with Gen AI tools, one of the most persistent misconceptions is that success depends on crafting the perfect prompt. In practice, that approach quickly reaches its limits. What truly drives quality, consistency, and…

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The Organic Evolution of Software: Harnessing Alexander’s Theory of Centers

Adrian Bolboaca — Thu, 05 Jun 2025 06:29:43 +0000

Christopher Alexander’s Theory of Centers, introduced in his seminal works A Pattern Language (1977) and The Timeless Way of Building (1979), provides a framework for creating human-centered, dynamic, and sustainable designs in architecture and urbanism. While initially applied to physical environments, these principles have significant relevance to software development. In both fields, the focus on…

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Practical Remote Pair Programming Book

Adrian Bolboaca — Fri, 12 Mar 2021 15:09:14 +0000

My new book Practical Remote Pair Programming is available for pre-order. Learn how to be a better (remote) pair programmer: How to use pair programming efficiently Techniques and styles for pair programming Pair-programming with distributed team Remote pair programming technique and styles Using remote tools, code editors and dedicated tools Audio, video, and tools for…

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Pair Programming Lessons

Adrian Bolboaca — Mon, 27 Jan 2020 07:30:00 +0000

I had Damien on my #RemotePairProgramming series and we also discussed about pair programming lessons: what we both learned about this practice. We talk about our pairing session, but also about our experience with pair programming in various situations. The pain of tools When doing remote pair programming it’s very important to have it easy…

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Microservices from the Trenches – Talk

Adrian Bolboaca — Thu, 23 Jan 2020 07:15:00 +0000

Microservices are a hype. It made programmers more aware of methods to modularise large monolithic systems, because of stricter component boundaries. Strategy vs Tactics While strategy needs to focus on all the high level concerns, tactics are the means of putting in place all the ideas from the strategy. Therefore architecture needs to be about…

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