Notes from the workshop

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

What we look for in a second opinion on generated architecture

Asking a model to propose an architecture is useful. Asking a second model to critique the first one's proposal is where the actual value showed up.

AIArchitectureEngineering

AI · 6 min

22 Jun 2026

Build note: migrating payments without a maintenance window

A client running around the clock could not accept downtime for a payment provider switch. The approach that got us there had nothing exotic in it.

Case studyEngineeringDelivery

Case notes · 7 min

19 Jun 2026

A postmortem format that people do not dread

Most incident reviews either assign blame quietly or avoid the interesting question entirely. We rewrote our template around one rule.

ProcessQualityEngineering

Process · 5 min

18 Jun 2026

The tests we write for a model-backed feature before any UI

Testing an AI feature through its interface is slow and unreliable. We test the reasoning layer directly, before a single screen exists.

TestingAIQuality

Quality · 6 min

17 Jun 2026

Pricing a fixed-scope project when part of it is unknown

Clients ask for a fixed price on work that includes a genuinely unknown integration. Here is how we split the quote so both sides are honest about the risk.

ProcessScopingClients

Process · 6 min

16 Jun 2026

What changes when a model can run the tests itself

Giving an agent the ability to execute the test suite, not just read it, changed the kind of mistakes it made and the kind we had to watch for.

AITestingEngineering

AI · 6 min