Long-form essays from the engineer, designer or lead who did the work. No vendor slop, no roundups, no sponsored placements.
2026-04-22
The nine new success criteria, translated out of spec-speak. What you'll be asked to show on your next bid, and the three tests that catch 80% of issues.
{("Request the essay" if not is_fr else "Demander l essai")}2026-04-15
How we shortlist models for a regulated agent, the evaluation harness we hand the customer on day 90, and why we ditched the 'try GPT-4 first' default.
{("Request the essay" if not is_fr else "Demander l essai")}2026-04-08
The reservation, compute-right-sizing, and storage-tiering moves that quietly halved our biggest client's warehouse spend, and the one Terraform module we open-sourced along the way.
{("Request the essay" if not is_fr else "Demander l essai")}2026-03-30
After 40+ municipal and provincial submissions, the same five scoring questions trip up vendors. Here's the pattern, and a page-one rewrite that pulled an 83 from a 66.
{("Request the essay" if not is_fr else "Demander l essai")}2026-03-22
Three tokens, two governance principles, one naming convention. The 'boring' choices that let a design system outlast the VP who approved it.
{("Request the essay" if not is_fr else "Demander l essai")}2026-03-15
Compensation is necessary, not sufficient. The staffing, project rotation, and learning-budget practices that keep senior engineers engaged past year three.
{("Request the essay" if not is_fr else "Demander l essai")}2026-03-08
When RAG is the right answer, when it's not, and the hybrid architecture we ship to clients who want both a grounded tone and a learned one.
{("Request the essay" if not is_fr else "Demander l essai")}2026-03-01
A linter that catches 62% of keyboard traps and colour-contrast failures before a designer hits 'export'. How it plugs into Figma, Storybook, and our CI.
{("Request the essay" if not is_fr else "Demander l essai")}2026-02-22
Expand-contract, dual-write, backfill, cutover, cleanup. The canonical five-step recipe we use, with the exact commit sequence that worked on a 50M-row table.
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