Notes from the workshop

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

The agent wrote the migration, we checked the rollback

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

19 Mar 2026

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

AI · 5 min

18 Mar 2026

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

Case notes · 7 min

17 Mar 2026

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

Engineering · 5 min

16 Mar 2026

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.

AI · 6 min