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Ship a thin vertical slice in week one
The fastest way to de-risk a build is to get one real feature all the way to production before you commit to the architecture.
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What we have learned shipping software into hard places. No thought leadership, just what worked.
The fastest way to de-risk a build is to get one real feature all the way to production before you commit to the architecture.
A demo is easy. A feature that stays good as your data, prompts, and models change needs an evaluation harness from day one.
Kubernetes is a fine answer to problems you actually have. Here is how we decide whether a team has them yet.
Static mockups hide the hard parts of an interface: timing, state, and what happens when something goes wrong.
Investors ask us to assess engineering teams before a round. The codebase matters less than you'd think.
More dashboards is not more insight. Start from the questions you'll ask at 3am and work backwards.