THE CRITICAL DESIGN ENGINEERING MANIFESTO

Summary from the TLDR Design newsletter

A remix of the 2011 Critical Engineering Manifesto adapts its statements for Critical Design Engineers navigating agentic software tools. Eleven numbered statements set guardrails such as treating generated code as both capability and threat, designing seams instead of seamlessness, and recording the "why" behind decisions. The text lives as a versioned GitHub Gist under the GNU Free Documentation License, with an influence register crediting the thinkers behind each statement.