About this archive
Rainbough Phillips
I’m an experienced software engineer writing about software systems, artificial intelligence, accessibility, and the human judgment involved in building and maintaining technology.
Current focus
My current work examines AI and cognitive resource management: what we delegate to intelligent systems, what engineers still need to understand, and what can quietly disappear when we stop practicing the work ourselves.
The recurring subjects include engineering judgment, software complexity, accessible interfaces, cognitive load, organizational behavior, and the accumulated knowledge hidden inside mature systems.
About the collection
This site collects essays, technical notes, field observations, and selected older writing originally published elsewhere. It is an archive in the practical sense—a place to keep related ideas visible long enough to notice the arguments, tensions, and odd little connections developing between them.