Notes from the workshop

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

What a year of generated code taught us about hiring

The skills that made someone a strong engineer before coding agents are mostly the same skills that matter now. One thing moved noticeably.

Process · 6 min

26 Mar 2026

We built the onboarding flow the client asked for, then built the one they actually needed, once the drop-off numbers told a different story.

Case notes · 6 min

25 Mar 2026

Code review catches bugs. It does not catch a feature that works exactly as coded and still makes the wrong call in a specific, recurring case.

Quality · 6 min

24 Mar 2026

A build note on scoping hardware and software together for a client who hadn't chosen a device vendor yet.

Case notes · 6 min

23 Mar 2026

Generated database migrations are usually correct going forward. The direction nobody tests is the one you need at 2am.

Engineering · 6 min

20 Mar 2026

The people who answer the tickets know which bugs actually hurt. We stopped scoping around a backlog that didn't include them.

Process · 5 min