Notes from the workshop

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

When a coding agent should not see the whole ticket

More context usually helps a model reason better. There is a specific, narrow case where giving it everything makes the output worse, and we found it by accident.

AIClaudeEngineering

AI · 6 min

22 Jul 2026

What we look for when a freelancer hands us a codebase

We are regularly brought in after a solo freelancer moves on. The pattern of what we find is consistent enough to be worth writing down.

Case studyEngineeringQuality

Case notes · 6 min

21 Jul 2026

The runbook that replaced a single person's memory

An incident at 2am is a bad time to discover that the only person who knows how the deploy pipeline actually works is asleep and unreachable.

ProcessEngineeringDelivery

Process · 5 min

20 Jul 2026

Keeping a monorepo honest as it grows

A shared repository is a convenience until the day two teams' changes start colliding invisibly. We wrote down the rules that keep that day rare.

EngineeringArchitectureProcess

Engineering · 6 min

17 Jul 2026

The conversation we have before a client buys an AI feature

Most requests for an AI feature arrive as a solution already. We have started insisting on a conversation about the problem before agreeing to build it.

AIClientsProcess

AI · 6 min

16 Jul 2026

Build note: an inventory count app for a warehouse with no wifi

A stocktake app for a client's warehouse had one constraint that decided almost everything else: the building had no reliable connectivity, anywhere.

Case studyEngineeringProduct

Case notes · 6 min