Notes from the workshop

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

The conversation we have before a client buys an AI feature

Most requests for an AI feature arrive as a solution already. We have started insisting on a conversation about the problem before agreeing to build it.

AIClientsProcess

AI · 6 min

16 Jul 2026

Build note: an inventory count app for a warehouse with no wifi

A stocktake app for a client's warehouse had one constraint that decided almost everything else: the building had no reliable connectivity, anywhere.

Case studyEngineeringProduct

Case notes · 6 min

15 Jul 2026

Writing acceptance criteria for things that are probabilistic

A feature that calls a model does not have a single correct output to test against. That does not mean it cannot have acceptance criteria — they just look different.

TestingAIQuality

Quality · 6 min

14 Jul 2026

The audit we run on our own projects every quarter

We turned the checklist we use when reviewing other teams' systems inward, on our own delivered work, and found exactly the kind of drift we warn clients about.

ProcessQualityEngineering

Process · 6 min

13 Jul 2026

What an agent gets wrong about database migrations

Coding agents write plausible-looking migrations quickly. The mistakes cluster in a small, predictable set of places, which makes them easy to check for specifically.

AIEngineeringData

AI · 6 min

10 Jul 2026

A definition of done that includes deletion

Feature flags, migration shims and temporary compatibility code accumulate quietly. We started treating their removal as part of the ticket, not a separate one nobody files.

ProcessEngineeringDelivery

Process · 5 min