Why I'm Building an Engineering Control Plane for AI-Assisted Development

AI coding tools are becoming increasingly capable. They can generate code, analyze repositories, run tests, and help developers move faster.

But as AI-assisted development grows, I keep coming back to a different question:

How do we engineer the system around the AI—not just the code it produces?

That question is one of the reasons I'm building SYSTEM-ENGINEERING , an open-source project exploring the idea of an Engineering Control Plane for AI-assisted development .

The problem I'm exploring

Adding more agents or connecting more tools does not automatically create a reliable engineering workflow.

A project also needs structure around the work:

Orchestration: How should tasks be coordinated across specialized agents?

Policies and contracts: How do we define what an agent can do, what it must respect, and when it should stop?

Validation: How can we verify results instead of relying exclusively on an agent's claims?

Memory and…