Insights
Notes from the work.
Short, specific write-ups on the things that decide whether a project ships. Written by the engineers on the engagements.
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Taking over someone else’s codebase: what the first week is for
Inheriting a system is a normal way for engagements to start. The first week decides whether the next three months go well, and it is not spent writing features.
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A performance budget is a number in CI, not a good intention
Sites get slow one reasonable pull request at a time. The fix is not a quarterly audit — it is a threshold that fails the build the day the regression lands.
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Five questions we ask before touching a training pipeline
A short diagnostic we run in the first days of an ML engagement. Most of the time the answers explain the delivery problem better than the code does.
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Native or cross-platform: make it a decision, not a debate
The question has a right answer for your app, and it is usually decidable in an afternoon. Here is the test we apply, and the costs each side hides.
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Build the eval harness before you tune another prompt
Prompt changes without measurement are a coin flip you cannot audit. What a minimum viable evaluation setup looks like, and how to wire it into CI in a day.
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