Notes from the workshop

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

When not to build software

Discovery occasionally ends with a recommendation not to proceed. Here is what that looks like and why we still charge for it.

Process · 5 min

09 Jan 2026

Handover is a deliverable with acceptance criteria, not an email with credentials in it.

Process · 5 min

08 Jan 2026

The quality of model-assisted work tracks what the model can see, far more than how the request is phrased.

AI · 6 min

07 Jan 2026

A build note: the questions that changed the architecture of a vehicle-tracking product before a line of it was written.

Case notes · 7 min

06 Jan 2026

Automated suites confirm what you already knew. The value of a human tester went up, not down, the moment code started arriving in bulk.

Quality · 6 min

05 Jan 2026

Four questions we ask about code a model wrote, in the order that catches the most problems soonest.

AI · 6 min