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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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06 Jan 2026

Exploratory testing when code arrives faster

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

TestingAIQuality

Quality · 6 min

05 Jan 2026

The review pass we run on every generated diff

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

AIQualityEngineering

AI · 6 min

02 Jan 2026

Writing specs a coding agent can actually follow

The difference between a spec that a model implements correctly and one it guesses at is mostly structure, not length.

AIClaudeProcess

AI · 6 min

01 Jan 2026

What we changed about how we build in 2026

A short account of the three habits we kept from last year, the two we dropped, and the one we are still arguing about internally.

ProcessDeliveryAI

Process · 5 min

18 Nov 2025

AI features that earn their place

Most LLM features we are asked for are a chat box. Almost none of them should be. Here is the test we apply before writing any of it.

AIProductScoping

AI · 7 min

07 Oct 2025

Why we still write fixed-price scopes

Time and materials is easier for the studio and worse for the client. What a week of paid discovery actually buys.

ProcessScopingClients

Process · 6 min