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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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17 Feb 2026

The agent that refactored more than it was asked to

A coding agent tidied a file while fixing a bug in it. The fix was correct. The tidying broke a test suite nobody thought to check.

AIClaudeQuality

AI · 6 min

16 Feb 2026

We timed our own releases for a month

Not the build, not the deploy — the whole path from a merged pull request to a person confirming the change worked. The slow part was not where we expected.

ProcessDeliveryEngineering

Process · 6 min

13 Feb 2026

Acceptance criteria for things that degrade gracefully

Most tickets specify what success looks like. Fewer specify what an acceptable failure looks like, and that gap is where products embarrass themselves.

ProcessQualityScoping

Process · 5 min

12 Feb 2026

The dashboard nobody asked for and everyone uses

A build note about the feature that was not in the brief, was not in the budget, and turned out to matter more than most of what was.

Case studyProductDelivery

Case notes · 6 min

11 Feb 2026

Reading a diff for what it does not say

The most useful review comment is often about a case that has no line of code at all yet.

EngineeringQualityProcess

Engineering · 5 min

10 Feb 2026

The support ticket that should have been a refund

An automated triage system routed correctly and still made the wrong call, because correct routing and correct judgement are not the same thing.

AIProductQuality

AI · 6 min