IDEAS, DECISIONS & LESSONS
Notes on AI, architecture and building useful products.
279 articles
19 Mar 2026 · 17 min read
ai
Part 12 of 13 — The series covered how to prevent bugs. This post covers what to do when they slip through. How to use AI as a debugging partner without chasing its hallucinations.
Read more19 Mar 2026 · 17 min read
ai
Part 8 of 13 — AI works differently for every developer. How to establish team conventions, shared context, consistent quality, and avoid the 'five different architectures' problem.
Read more18 Mar 2026 · 8 min read
adr
Part 5 of 8 — How to integrate AI assistants into your Umbraco migration workflow: prompt patterns for Umbraco-specific tasks, using Umbraco 17's built-in Developer MCP, Architectural Decision Records (ADRs) as migration governance, and the AI Champion model for tech teams.
Read more17 Mar 2026 · 18 min read
ai
Part 11 of 13 — The series covered WHAT to do with AI. This post covers HOW to communicate with it. Prompt patterns that produce usable code, not impressive demos.
Read more16 Mar 2026 · 16 min read
ai
Part 7 of 13 — AI doesn't understand threat models. How to define your trust boundary, handle security-critical code, and build guardrails that protect your users.
Read more13 Mar 2026 · 8 min read
agency
Part 7 of 8 — When you're managing 10, 20, or 50 Umbraco sites, individual project economics don't work. The Marketing OS framework: shared NuGet packages, shared document type libraries, AI-accelerated delivery, and how to reduce per-site migration cost by 50–70%.
Read more12 Mar 2026 · 20 min read
ai
Part 6 of 13 — AI-generated code needs different testing strategies. How to write tests that catch what AI gets wrong, use AI to generate test cases, and build a testing workflow for AI-assisted development.
Read more11 Mar 2026 · 16 min read
ai
Part 10 of 13 — Everything we learned building BuildRight with AI, the mistakes we'd make again, the ones we wouldn't, and where AI-assisted development is heading.
Read more10 Mar 2026 · 10 min read
ai
Part 7 of 7 — The final retrospective. Ten anti-patterns to avoid, what AI genuinely can't do, what surprised us, and where AI-assisted migration is heading next.
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