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Notes from the workshop

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

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19 Mar 2026

The cost of a model that changed underneath us

A provider updated a model version behind an API we call. Nothing broke, and the output quietly got worse for one specific use case.

AIQualityProcess

AI · 5 min

18 Mar 2026

Building a driver app for a phone that might not have signal

A build note on the offline-first decisions in a delivery app, and the one we got wrong before we got it right.

Case studyEngineeringArchitecture

Case notes · 7 min

17 Mar 2026

The restore drill we run on someone else's system

Auditing an inherited codebase, we start by trying to break it in the one way most teams never actually test.

EngineeringQualityProcess

Engineering · 5 min

16 Mar 2026

Reading the training data in a model's mistakes

A model's confident wrong answers are rarely random. They usually tell you something about what it has seen a lot of and what it hasn't.

AIClaudeEngineering

AI · 6 min

13 Mar 2026

The definition of done we actually enforce

Most teams have a definition of done nobody checks against. Ours is short enough that checking it takes less time than skipping it.

ProcessDeliveryQuality

Process · 5 min

12 Mar 2026

What we look for in a Shopify app's third-party webhooks

A build note on the checks we now run against every incoming webhook before it's allowed to touch an order.

EngineeringIntegrationsCase study

Engineering · 6 min