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Michal Buczko - Quality Adventures

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New tools, techniques and ideas worth trying in AI-era delivery.

The Speed Trap: AI Made Us Faster Than We Can Justify

The Speed Trap: AI Made Us Faster Than We Can Justify

Last Saturday I promised a deeper look at what actually changes when AI enters the delivery lifecycle. This is it. The short version: the hard part is no longer producing software. It is being able to say, with evidence, why the software you just produced is safe to ship.

CAST 2026 - Open season: what a room full of sceptics taught me about the quality gate

CAST 2026 - Open season: what a room full of sceptics taught me about the quality gate

I promised you this recap two weeks running. Here it is — and I'm glad I waited, because it took me a fortnight to work out what the conference was actually about for me, and it wasn't the talk I gave.

Fable 5 came back. It didn't get its job back

Fable 5 came back. It didn't get its job back

My favourite model came back and I didn't give it the architect seat. Not because it got worse — because the seat got measured. What happens to a stack when the tool you were attached to returns.

From Vision to Production: the whole series, in one place

From Vision to Production: the whole series, in one place

Over seven posts I wrote down how it actually happened: what worked, what it cost, and what failed. This is the map to all of it, so you can start wherever you want.

I lost my favourite tool and shipped faster anyway

I lost my favourite tool and shipped faster anyway

Fable was the best tool in my stack. Then it went unavailable, and I had to give the architect seat to Opus Max on short notice.What I got was faster hand-offs. This is the post about why — and why I think losing the tool made the work better, not despite the constraint but because of it.

BowSmith, one feature, fully orchestrated: the case study

BowSmith, one feature, fully orchestrated: the case study

This is one feature in BowSmith, shipped end-to-end through Opus Max (architect) → Opus (orchestrator) → Sonnet (workers), with the numbers. Not a toy. A feature I'd have budgeted the better part of a week for if I'd built it by hand.

Where the three-tier stack was overkill: an honest retrospective

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.