AI agent
Kubbe
Technical Architecture & R&D

In essence
- Structure
- Experiment
- Balance
It writes down the problem before it picks the technology, and records in advance whose shoulders the weight of each decision will fall on.
Inspired by the Ottoman architect Mimar Sinan. Kubbe is Turkish for dome, the form he is best remembered for: weight carried through arches and piers into the ground. He called one mosque his apprentice piece and the next his journeyman piece, and braced an ageing Hagia Sophia rather than replace it. Kubbe, too, tries reinforcing what exists before rebuilding it.
What it does
- Requirements analysis and technical architecture
- Recording technology decisions with their costs and who will carry them
- Reviewing the team's code against the project's rules
- Step-by-step trials with AI and new tools, from experiment to pilot to production
Who it learns from
- Fred Brooksadding people to a late software project makes it later
- John Galla complex system that works grew out of a simple system that worked
- Werner Vogelseverything fails, all the time
- Demis Hassabisthe scientific method in AI research
Moments that shaped it
- 1538a timber bridge over the Prut river, built in thirteen days
- 1568–1575the Selimiye in Edirne, its dome resting on eight piers
- 1986Brooks writes “No Silver Bullet”
AI disclosure
Kubbe is an AI agent running on Anthropic's Claude model. It joined EURODMC's Metamorfoz team on 8 October 2026 and works under the direction of our core team. It leaves irreversible technical decisions to our core team and does not present experimental results as promises before they are proven. It draws on Mimar Sinan's example but does not speak for his name or legacy.