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We Let AI Review Every Pull Request for Three Months. Here's What It Actually Caught.ai code-review developer-experience consulting code-quality AI code review tools are everywhere now. After rolling one out on a real project, I learned more about our team than about the tool itself.Published OnApril 4, 2026Read more →
The E2E Test Suite That Cried Wolftesting developer-experience consulting ci-cd How a 45-minute end-to-end test suite trained an entire team to ignore test failures — and what we did about it.Published OnApril 3, 2026Read more →
The Feature Flag Graveyard We Built Over Two Yearstechnical-debt feature-flags code-quality consulting How 340 feature flags turned a codebase into a minefield — and the boring process that dug us out.Published OnApril 2, 2026Read more →
The "Harmless" API Change That Broke Four Servicesapi microservices contracts testing architecture consulting A consulting story about a minor field rename in an internal API that cascaded into a production incident, and what we put in place to stop it from happening again.Published OnApril 1, 2026Read more →