Quality at machine speed: ~70,000 tests, static analysis, and the review bias nobody warns you about
Quality at machine speed: ~70,000 tests, static analysis, and the review bias nobody warns you about
Where the three-tier stack was overkill: an honest retrospective
Not a victory lap the opposite. Where the stack was overkill, where the hand-off cost more than it saved, and the one-question filter I now run before I stand up the architect tier at all.
RPI → RPIQ: the method that made AI build production software
For the first stretch of this project I didn't have a method. I had a chat window, a vague plan, and a lot of optimism. It got me surprisingly far and then it fell over — not because the model wasn't capable, but because I wasn't giving it a system to be capable inside of.
The RPIQ loop: where the architect tier actually sits
That methodology is the loop I've been running long before any of these models existed: Research → Plan → Implement → Quality. RPIQ. This post maps the stack onto it — and shows why the mapping, not the model, is the thing worth keeping.
CAST part3: Building the team: from 17 role-based agents to task-based Agent Teams
Somewhere in Phase 4 of this build, my job changed. I stopped prompting an assistant and started managing a team — one you can't see, that never sleeps, and that will confidently agree with itself right off a cliff if you let it.
CAST Part2: Four phases, four walls: how I built a production app with zero iOS experience
I'll start with the part I didn't think I'd get to write so soon: as of today, BowSmith is live on the App Store. Zero iOS experience when I started. A real, shippable archery app today.
CAST part 1: How a QA professional with zero iOS experience built a production app using AI – and what I learned about the future of software delivery
I have spent 20 years in software testing and quality assurance. I knew almost nothing about iOS development. Zero Swift experience. Yet here I am, 18 months later, with a production-ready iOS app approaching alpha launch.
