Notes from the workshop

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

Pairing a tester with an agent

We tried putting a QA engineer and a coding agent on the same ticket at the same time. The friction was useful.

Quality · 6 min

13 Apr 2026

The most expensive bugs we've fixed this quarter all crossed a boundary where nothing checked the shape of the data.

Engineering · 6 min

10 Apr 2026

Clients often ask which model we use before asking what happens when it's wrong. We'd rather answer the second question first.

AI · 6 min

09 Apr 2026

We shipped a SaaS analytics dashboard that tested well and then usage fell off a cliff. The reason wasn't the dashboard.

Case notes · 5 min

08 Apr 2026

A car-sharing lock that says it's locked is reporting the last command it received, not the current state of the world.

Engineering · 6 min

07 Apr 2026

A marketplace with no supply looks broken to buyers, and a marketplace with no demand looks pointless to sellers. Launch order is a design decision.

Case notes · 6 min