LatestAI Engineering7 min
Build the eval harness before the model
Most failed AI projects we are asked to rescue have the same root cause: nobody agreed what 'working' meant before the demo impressed someone.
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Architecture
The strangler pattern, honestly assessed
Incremental migration is the right default, but it is not free. Here is what it actually costs and when a big-bang cutover is the rational choice.
11 min
Games
Why we will not skip the vertical slice
A playable slice costs about 8% of a game's budget and routinely saves the other 92% from being spent on something nobody enjoys.
6 min
Delivery
What actually makes a distributed team work
It is not the tooling. After seven years of running teams across three timezones, the variables that matter are surprisingly few.
9 min
Cloud
Cutting a cloud bill by a third without touching features
A walkthrough of where the money usually goes — and the six changes that account for most of the savings in almost every audit we run.
8 min
Design
Design systems engineers will actually use
The gap between a beautiful Figma library and a component library in production, and how to close it before it opens.
6 min
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