Notes from the workshop

What we learned building things, written up while it was still fresh. No thought leadership, no listicles.

Load testing a feature that does not exist yet

How we estimate concurrency limits before a line of the feature is built, and why the answer usually changes the design rather than the infrastructure bill.

TestingQualityEngineering

Quality · 6 min

03 Aug 2026

The agent that refactored the wrong module

A near-miss from last month, and the process change we made so it does not repeat: naming the blast radius before the work starts.

AIEngineeringQuality

AI · 6 min

31 Jul 2026

The engineering log we keep that nobody is required to read

A running, informal record of decisions and dead ends, kept without a template or a mandate, has quietly become one of the most useful documents on every project.

EngineeringProcessQuality

Engineering · 5 min

30 Jul 2026

What we do differently for a fixed-price project now

Fixed-price work always required tight scoping. Faster, more variable implementation speed changed which parts of that discipline matter most.

ProcessDeliveryClients

Process · 6 min

29 Jul 2026

The difference between fast feedback and early feedback

Coding agents shortened the time between writing code and getting a result. That is not the same thing as shortening the time between a bad idea and someone noticing.

EngineeringProcessAI

Engineering · 6 min

28 Jul 2026

Build note: a permissions audit trail a regulator actually accepted

A financial services client needed an audit trail that would satisfy an external reviewer, not just a table of who-did-what. The distinction changed the design.

Case studyEngineeringData

Case notes · 7 min