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Notes from the studio on engineering, AI automation, and the boring half of software craft. Slow cadence on purpose.

AIMay 14, 202611 min read

The eval harness you’ll wish you wrote first.

An LLM workflow without an eval suite is a prototype. Here is the smallest one we ship in production — a Postgres table, a CI job, a dashboard — and why it usually catches regressions before any human notices.

By Yael Harel

EngineeringMay 02, 20267 min

Why we still write boring SQL by hand.

ORM-bashing is its own internet sport. Here is the actual workflow we use in production — drizzle for the boring 80%, hand-written queries with explain plans for the 20% that matters.

ProcessApr 22, 20265 min

The discovery sprint, in 700 words.

What we actually do during a two-week discovery, what we deliver at the end, and why we don’t skip it even on “simple” builds.

InfraApr 11, 20269 min

Migration tranches: how we move legacy without a freeze.

A strangler-fig migration is a thousand small cuts, all reversible. Here is the playbook we use, with the bits that go wrong called out by name.

AIMar 30, 20266 min

Provider-agnostic LLM gateways.

If you read your model name from a config file, you can switch providers without redeploying. If you read it from your code, you have a refactor coming. We explain why we do the former.

StudioMar 14, 20264 min

Why we stay small.

A short note on hiring philosophy. Our cap is twelve. Past that, we lose the thing we’re selling. Here is the math, and the awkward conversations it has cost us.

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