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railsstartupengineering

Should You Let Them Build It in Rails?

You cannot judge a framework you cannot read, and comparing frameworks across ecosystems mostly produces noise. Here is what a non-technical founder can actually check when someone proposes Ruby on Rails.

· Paul Keen
aicode-reviewstartup

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.

aistartupcode-review

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.

· Paul Keen
aihiringstartup

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.

· Paul Keen
contentaistartup

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.

· Paul Keen
startupfounderhiring

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.

· JetThoughts Team
startupfounderdev-agency

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.

· JetThoughts Team
startupfounderdev-agency

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.

· JetThoughts Team
startupfounderagile

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.

· JetThoughts Team
startupfounderdev-agency

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.

· JetThoughts Team

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