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The Makeover Era

Vibe-coded apps are shippable, not survivable. AI-built software is meeting real users, real load, and real audits. Most of it needs a rebuild, not a debug pass.

2026.06.11STRATEGY

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The Agent Test

One question separates agent projects worth building from the ones Gartner expects to be cancelled. Most teams cannot answer it. Here is the test we use.

Evals Are the Product

Stalled LLM products all share one missing artifact: a way to know if the thing got better or worse. The eval suite is the spec, the regression net, and the roadmap.

Scraping Is an Arms Race You Win With Discipline

Clever bypasses win a week. Disciplined extraction wins years. On rate ceilings, backoff, observability, and the boring engineering that survives the arms race.

2026.06.11BUSINESS

Why Our Discovery Is Free

We never bill for the part where we decide whether we can help. Charging for diagnosis rewards finding work. Free diagnosis rewards finding the truth.

The Boring Levers

Most scaling failures are self-inflicted: Google-shaped architecture adopted before the boring levers are exhausted. Boring first is sequencing, not timidity.