Use AI.
Just don't ship slop.
AI writes code fast. Judgment is what makes it good. We build with AI every day — and write down everything we learn: tips, tool rankings, and real build guides.
Fresh off the blog
Vibe-coded apps, ranked and roasted.
Vibe-Code Watch
We ranked 8 AI app builders by actual code quality
Everyone ranks AI builders by how fast the demo looks. We ranked them by what matters: the code they leave behind. Eight tools, one rubric, zero mercy.
19 Oct 2026
Vibe-Code Watch
5 vibe-coded launches that fell apart in week one
The demo was flawless. The launch tweet went viral. Then real users showed up. Five archetypes of vibe-coded launches — and the exact week-one failure each one earned.
18 Oct 2026
Teardowns
Anatomy of a vibe-coded checkout: 14 bugs in 200 lines
A founder sent us the checkout flow their AI built. 200 lines, looked perfect in the demo. We found 14 bugs — including one that charged customers twice. Here's the full teardown.
17 Oct 2026
The stack we build on
Selected work
Built by hand. Still running.
A few things we've engineered — no prompts-to-production, no 40,000-line monoliths.
Personal project
Txtur
A clinic workspace app — appointments, records, and billing in one hand-built Next.js product.
Data engineering
Rental inventory pipeline
Scrapy spiders feeding normalized NYC rental inventory into Django APIs and a React dashboard. Built to be maintained.
Mobile app
Carousels Maker
A React Native carousel editor with AI-assisted drafting and image export. Shipped, not demoed.
Services
What the studio builds
Fixed scope, honest timelines, code you can maintain. Quotes are per-project — no pricing theater.
Full-stack web apps
Django or FastAPI backends, React/Next.js frontends. Designed before a line is written.
AI / LLM integration
RAG pipelines, agents, and chatbots that work in production — not just the demo.
Web scraping & automation
Scrapy and Playwright pipelines that survive redesigns, bot walls, and scale.
APIs & integrations
REST APIs, webhooks, and third-party integrations with contracts you can trust.
Process
How 'not vibe-coded' actually works
The unglamorous machinery behind software that survives contact with real users: AI speed, human judgment.
01
Discovery
We define what 'done' looks like before anything is built — scope, edge cases, and success criteria in writing.
02
Build
Architecture first, then code. Every consequential line is written deliberately and reviewed.
03
Review
Tests, adversarial review, and real-world conditions — the boring parts that make software survive contact with users.
04
Handoff
Documentation, a clean repo, and a rollback plan. You own everything, and you can maintain it.
Have something that needs building properly?
No prompts-to-production pipelines. Just engineering: architecture, tests, review, and code you can actually maintain.
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