Insights on Building Better Software
Articles about AI-powered development, best practices, and shipping faster.
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Switch to List View →React Native Architecture Decisions That Become Expensive Later
September 9, 2026
The React Native choices that quietly determine how your team builds, releases, and recovers for years — and where EAS actually helps.

The Decisions That Seem Small Today but Cost a Fortune Tomorrow
September 2, 2026
How early choices in building software quietly turn into expensive constraints later — and what smart teams do differently.
"It Works on My Machine" Isn't Proof — It's a Risk Handoff
August 26, 2026
You've heard it said with total confidence, trusted like it was evidence. It isn't. Here's how a green test suite on one laptop becomes a failed checkout in production — and what reproducibility actually takes.
The Model Context Protocol Explained: How AI Connects Safely to Your Data
August 19, 2026
Modern AI can answer questions, write code, and take actions — but it can't see inside your private database. The Model Context Protocol is the open standard that fixes this, giving AI a safe, consistent way to connect to the systems where your data actually lives.
AI Agents in Production: The Failure Modes Nobody Demos
August 7, 2026
An AI agent that works in a demo and an AI agent that works in production are different systems. This guide covers what actually breaks — compounding step failure, tool design, silent partial success, unbounded loops, context growth — and the evaluation and guardrail work that separates the two.
Predetermined Change Control Plans: How AI Medical Devices Get FDA Clearance to Keep Learning
July 27, 2026
A traditional FDA clearance freezes your AI device in place — every retrain or improvement risks a new submission. A Predetermined Change Control Plan is how you get cleared to keep updating. This guide covers what a PCCP is, its three required components, and what it demands of your engineering.
In-House vs. Agency vs. AI-Accelerated Team: The Real Cost of Building Your MVP in 2026
July 21, 2026
The price on the invoice is the smallest part of what an MVP costs you. This guide breaks down the true cost of building with an in-house team, an agency, or an AI-accelerated team in 2026 — including the time-to-market and rework costs nobody quotes upfront.
EHR Integration for Healthcare AI Startups: FHIR, Epic, and the Patterns That Get You Past Hospital Procurement
May 29, 2026
HIPAA makes you legal. FDA clearance makes you sellable to clinicians. Neither gets you into a hospital. This guide covers the integration standards, vendor marketplaces, and procurement realities that decide whether a healthcare AI product ships into real clinical environments — or sits on a shelf with a great demo.
The Real Cost of Running AI in Production: A Framework for Token Efficiency, Model Selection, and Avoiding the Surprise Bill
April 29, 2026
AI API costs are predictable — once you know the levers. This guide covers every layer of the cost stack: prompt design, model tiering, caching, batching, RAG vs fine-tuning economics, and the monitoring infrastructure that keeps costs from compounding invisibly.