Insights & guides

Straight talk on AI-built software

What breaks when AI writes your code, and how to find it before your users do — from engineers who fix it for a living.

Who this is for

If you shipped something with Lovable, Replit, Cursor or v0 and it now has to survive real users — these posts are for you. We write the checks we actually run in an audit, from engineers who spent 12+ years on production systems at Fortune 500 companies: real failure modes, real trade-offs, no agency-speak hedging.

What you won't find here:

  • “10 reasons you need a website” listicle bait.
  • Generic “trends to watch in 2026” predictions written by someone who hasn't shipped anything in five years.
  • Disguised sales pitches dressed up as guides.

Most of what we publish is decision-support: what to check before you ship a vibe-coded app, where AI-generated auth and payment code quietly breaks, what production-ready actually means, and what an honest fixed-price engagement should look like. Written by engineers who've made the calls themselves.

Engineering

From Jupyter notebook to production: what actually has to change

Your notebook or research pipeline works — for you, on your data, run by hand. Here is what actually changes to make Python research code production-ready, and what can stay.

August 2, 2026 · 6 min readRead article →

Strategy

PhD startup? Get your research code audited before investors see it

Turning PhD research into a startup means your prototype becomes an asset under diligence. What technical scrutiny looks like for university spinouts, and how a code audit prepares you for it.

August 2, 2026 · 5 min readRead article →

AI Remediation

Before You Ship Your Lovable or Replit App: What to Check First

A pre-launch walkthrough for Lovable and Replit apps: what changes between the demo and production, mapped to the first 30 days of real traffic.

July 5, 2026 · 9 min readRead article →

AI Remediation

Is My AI-Built App Production-Ready? A 10-Point Checklist

A 10-point self-assessment to find out whether your AI-built app is production-ready before real users hit it. Concrete checks, no jargon.

July 5, 2026 · 9 min readRead article →

AI Remediation

The Security Holes AI Coding Tools Leave in Your Auth

The recurring auth security holes in AI-generated code from Lovable, Cursor, Bolt, and v0 — why they happen, and how to check your own app.

July 5, 2026 · 9 min readRead article →

Decision Guide

In-House vs Outsourced Development: The Real Cost Comparison

The honest cost comparison between hiring an in-house engineer, using a freelance marketplace, and outsourcing to a dedicated team — including the costs that never show up in the salary line.

June 27, 2026 · 8 min readRead article →

Cost Guide

White-Label Development Pricing: What Agencies Pay and Charge

How white-label software development is actually priced — what agencies pay a dev partner, what they charge their client, and why hidden pricing and cheap rates cost more in the end.

June 27, 2026 · 8 min readRead article →

Security

Your AI built a healthcare app. It didn't read HIPAA.

AI coding tools don't know what HIPAA requires. The compliance gaps vibe-coded healthcare apps ship with — and how to find them before a breach does. Code audit from $995.

May 9, 2026 · 5 min readRead article →

Security

You vibe-coded a fintech MVP. Now real money is about to move through it.

AI built your fintech MVP fast — but money, auth, and financial data break in predictable ways. What to check before real transactions start. Code audit from $995.

May 9, 2026 · 5 min readRead article →

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