Notes from the workshop

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

The difference between a demo and a review-worthy build

A feature that demos well and a feature that is ready for review are not the same claim, and conflating them is where a lot of late-stage schedule slippage comes from.

ProcessDeliveryQuality

Process · 5 min

25 May 2026

The migration we ran in the background for a month

Moving a client's core table to a new schema without a maintenance window meant running two versions of the truth side by side, on purpose, for weeks.

EngineeringArchitectureData

Engineering · 6 min

22 May 2026

What we tell junior engineers about using agents

The advice we give new engineers about coding agents is almost the opposite of the advice that helps senior engineers, and conflating the two has caused real damage.

AIEngineeringProcess

AI · 6 min

21 May 2026