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Migrations you can actually roll back
Nearly every team will tell you their migrations are reversible. Try it on a Tuesday afternoon. Here are the patterns that make rollback a routine event instead of a Saturday emergency.
Cost ceilings for LLM features are an engineering problem, not a finance one
Most teams treat the monthly LLM bill as something for finance to escalate. It is an engineering problem with engineering levers, and the time to design for it is day one — not month three.
The observability minimum that earns its keep
Enterprise vendors oversell observability and small teams underbuild it. There's a two-week setup that pays back forever, and a lot of stuff past that which only earns its keep at scale.
Stack-agnostic does not mean no defaults
The most common misreading of "we pick the stack per engagement" is that we have no opinion about anything. We do. The opinions are just the floor, not the ceiling.
Schemas that survive the second feature
The most consistent failure mode of AI-built systems is the database schema. It looks reasonable for three use cases and becomes unworkable the moment the fourth arrives.
Authentication that survives an OWASP pass
An AI model will scaffold a login form in 90 seconds and it will look right. What it will not do, even with a reputable library, is survive a serious security review. Here's the list.
The boring-infrastructure checklist we ship every project with
Every studio claims to build production-grade software. Production-grade is a checklist with sharp edges, not a vibe. Here's the one-page list we ship with every engagement.
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