Notes from the workshop

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

The half-life of a generated comment

Comments a model writes alongside its own code tend to describe what the code does today. Six months later they describe nothing true at all.

AI · 6 min

30 Jun 2026

Six model-backed features into a run of projects, the scoping questions that mattered turned out to have almost nothing to do with the model.

AI · 7 min

29 Jun 2026

A feature failed for four days before anyone noticed, because it failed quietly and successfully by every metric we were already watching.

Engineering · 5 min

26 Jun 2026

A rewrite estimate that assumes the old system stops mattering the day the new one starts is an estimate for a different, easier project.

Process · 6 min

25 Jun 2026

Sending customer data to a third-party model provider is a decision with a shape, not just a technical integration. Here is what we check first.

AI · 6 min

24 Jun 2026

A single screen was losing a third of new signups. The fix was not a redesign, it was removing a question that did not need to be asked yet.

Case notes · 5 min