All writings tagged with "Best Practices"
What actually happened is that the AI showed up on Monday asking where the repository lives, spent Tuesday reading the entire codebase, and by Wednesday was submitting pull requests while openly questioning architectural decisions made by senior engineers. The latest models don't just "write a function."
A founder’s app had glowing reviews and enthusiastic users, yet nobody was actually using it. The brutal truth only surfaced when he stopped asking for praise and started asking for a credit card, revealing the hidden danger of free validation
Every failed project is full of sincere people who promised to “do better next time.”
Over time, you learn that clean code is an internal concern, but stable interfaces are external. Users do not care how your system is structured. They care that it behaves the same way today as it did yesterday.
I was in a founder's kitchen last month. Whiteboard behind him, coffee going cold, three months of runway left. He walked me through his architecture: Kafka streaming between six microservices, a GraphQL federation layer, a vector database for "future AI features."
Founders are right to move fast. Early on, speed is survival. But some shortcuts do more than save time they quietly borrow against your future ability to build, change, and scale