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Your AI Reviewer Approved It. Did It Read Its Own Report?

Your AI Reviewer Approved It. Did It Read Its Own Report?

Our AI code reviewer found a SQL injection, described it accurately, and set the verdict to approve in the same response. Here is what we changed.
Your Dev Shop Says the Code Was Reviewed. By What?

Your Dev Shop Says the Code Was Reviewed. By What?

Copilot now takes part in more than one in five code reviews on GitHub. The research says AI reviewers earn their keep - and that the tuning which makes them usable suppressed about a fifth of real vulnerabilities on a standard benchmark.
What Senior Devs Catch That AI Misses

What Senior Devs Catch That AI Misses

A change swapped a made-up number for a confident, wrong explanation of how Propshaft works. Spotting the difference is the thing you are actually hiring for.
How to Audit Content You Didn't Write

How to Audit Content You Didn't Write

A fake think tank published 100+ reports built to be repeated by chatbots, behind a $900,000 government contract. The same economics reached your blog. Four checks you can run.
Cheap Developers Are Expensive Without Review

Cheap Developers Are Expensive Without Review

Cheap developers turn into expensive mistakes when nobody senior reads their code. A 20-minute pull request check plus ways to add review without a CTO salary.
What SLAs to Require From Your Dev Shop

What SLAs to Require From Your Dev Shop

Five SLA requirements for your dev shop contract: response times, fix windows, uptime, a definition of done, and a penalty clause that actually bites.
Switch Dev Shops Without Losing Progress

Switch Dev Shops Without Losing Progress

How to switch development agencies without losing your code: the 30-day overlap, the cold-start deploy drill, and what the next team needs on day one.
Retros Are Your Transparency Tool

Retros Are Your Transparency Tool

Retros for non-technical founders: what a retrospective is, what the one-page summary should say, and why a repeated action item is your best warning sign.
Dev Shop Contract: Who Owns the Code?

Dev Shop Contract: Who Owns the Code?

Under US copyright law the code your dev shop writes is not yours by default - a signed clause makes it yours. Five clauses to check, plus one command to run first.
Asked for an Admin Panel, Got a Spaceship

Asked for an Admin Panel, Got a Spaceship

You asked for a simple admin panel and got an over-engineered MVP. The feature-noun check to run on your own spec, and the 90-minute rewrite that stops it.

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