Engineering Notes

What we learn building software with AI agents - in production, across stacks - written by the engineers who did the work.

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Development

The guardrails we put on AI coding agents, and the incident that taught us

A CEO's first-hand account of the guardrails written for AI coding agents after one deleted a development database, and how they reached the development team.

Mark Podliashetskyi Oct 12, 2026 · 6 min read

DevelopmentBusiness

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Development

From Figma to a full Azure DevOps backlog - with a human approving every page

How an AI agent turned our website's Figma design into Azure DevOps epics, stories and tasks, page by page, with human approval at every step.

Mark Podliashetskyi Oct 12, 2026 · 5 min read

ADODevelopment

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Business

I'm not a developer. Our payroll system went live two weeks after I approved the spec

How a CEO used AI coding agents to replace a 3-4 hour monthly payroll run with a 15-20 minute one - and what made it safe to trust.

Mark Podliashetskyi Oct 12, 2026 · 5 min read

BusinessDevelopment