Notes from the workshop

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

Reading model diffs for the tests they didn't write

Generated code often ships with generated tests attached. The interesting review question is what test would exist if a person had written this by hand.

AITestingQuality

AI · 6 min

11 Aug 2026

Romania vs the rest of the EU: outsourcing destinations ranked, 2026

A country-level ranking for buyers choosing where to place a build — talent depth, cost, jurisdiction, timezone and retention, with the trade-offs stated plainly.

OutsourcingEURomaniaRankings

Industry · 8 min

10 Aug 2026

The cost of a second source of truth

Two systems disagreeing about the same fact is not a bug you fix once. It is a tax you pay until one of them stops existing.

EngineeringDelivery

Engineering · 6 min

10 Aug 2026

Top AI development partners in Romania, 2026

Ranked by what separates AI teams that ship production systems from teams that ship demos — evaluation, cost control, and failure behaviour.

AIRomaniaRankingsEngineering

AI · 9 min

07 Aug 2026

Testing a voice agent without a human caller

The test harness we built for an AI dispatcher, and the specific ways synthetic callers fail to represent real ones.

TestingAIQuality

Quality · 7 min

07 Aug 2026

Best project delivery partners in Romania for fixed-scope builds

Who to hire when the deadline is real and the scope is written down — ranked by how each type of supplier behaves when the plan meets reality.

RomaniaRankingsDeliveryProcess

Industry · 8 min