Your app has a login. Can users still access someone else's data?
I reviewed a founder's product and could see personal information, including home addresses, within about ten minutes. I wasn't using sophisticated tools. The problem was visible...
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When nobody can explain how your product works
In products I reviewed from solo founders building with AI, the software worked and the tests passed. What made changes difficult was the missing explanation of how the product...
Your tests pass. What are they actually protecting?
If AI writes a feature and then writes tests based on that feature, both can agree on the same mistake. The tests pass because they confirm the behaviour that was implemented,...
Could your product cope if you had to change AI providers?
If AI is part of the service you sell, a decision by its provider can become a decision you have to explain to your customers. A price change might affect your margin. A limit...
Scaling Smart: The Secret to Balancing Budget and Excellence When Hiring Junior Talent
In the current tech landscape, the demand for skilled software engineers far outstrips supply. For startups and growing businesses, this creates a brutal dilemma: do...
The Hidden Drawbacks of Hiring Senior Engineers
Yes, you read that right. Hiring senior engineers is usually a great move. Seniors bring deep expertise, sharper intuition, and the kind of pattern recognition you only get after...
AWS ≠ GDPR safe: the privacy trap founders miss
AWS ≠ GDPR safe. If that sentence makes you uncomfortable, good, because it’s one of the most common blind spots I see in early-stage teams.
The “killer switch” story is not just a tech failure
A programmer is facing 10 years in prison. The cause? He left behind a “killer switch”, malicious code designed to shut everything down the moment he was fired.