https://www.andrewedmond.com/blog/ Notes on building and assessing AI-era software. en Wed, 05 Aug 2026 09:00:00 +0000 https://www.andrewedmond.com/blog/what-shipping-it-taught-me/ https://www.andrewedmond.com/blog/what-shipping-it-taught-me/ Wed, 05 Aug 2026 09:00:00 +0000 The last note in the series — what held up (skills, invariants, truth as a build gate), what I'd do differently (instrument sooner, kill features faster), and the honest headline. https://www.andrewedmond.com/blog/twelve-days-with-apple/ https://www.andrewedmond.com/blog/twelve-days-with-apple/ Fri, 31 Jul 2026 09:00:00 +0000 The App Store review gauntlet round by round — a real defect, three AI questions answered by design, a caption edit — and why the standards, not the tooling, were the reason it survived. https://www.andrewedmond.com/blog/the-bug-my-wife-found/ https://www.andrewedmond.com/blog/the-bug-my-wife-found/ Tue, 28 Jul 2026 09:00:00 +0000 A ducked-audio bug that survived multiple builds, the turn-taking fix, and the harder decision — retiring Lola's voice because the observed experience never fit. https://www.andrewedmond.com/blog/tests-encode-beliefs/ https://www.andrewedmond.com/blog/tests-encode-beliefs/ Wed, 22 Jul 2026 09:00:00 +0000 The robots test the app — real magic-link sign-in, a 181-profile matrix in CI — and the night an audit found tests loyally protecting the wrong answers. https://www.andrewedmond.com/blog/the-funnel-outranked-us/ https://www.andrewedmond.com/blog/the-funnel-outranked-us/ Mon, 20 Jul 2026 09:00:00 +0000 First contact with real users — 1,200 views, two complete journeys, zero errors — and the funnel data that rebuilt the interview around one rule. https://www.andrewedmond.com/blog/operational-excellence-with-ai/ https://www.andrewedmond.com/blog/operational-excellence-with-ai/ Wed, 15 Jul 2026 09:00:00 +0000 Four production ops lessons from an AI build — in-memory counters on serverless, wide-open CORS defaults, a staging DB baked into prod, and dead source links. https://www.andrewedmond.com/blog/the-truth-pipeline/ https://www.andrewedmond.com/blog/the-truth-pipeline/ Sun, 12 Jul 2026 09:00:00 +0000 How a three-step pipeline — source at scale, ground in primary sources, gate the build — turns hallucination from a prompt problem into a systems problem. https://www.andrewedmond.com/blog/the-walking-skeleton/ https://www.andrewedmond.com/blog/the-walking-skeleton/ Sat, 11 Jul 2026 09:00:00 +0000 Why an ugly end-to-end walking skeleton beats polished fragments, and matters more with AI, not less — featuring the kitten Claude labeled "Madrid." https://www.andrewedmond.com/blog/invariants-before-features/ https://www.andrewedmond.com/blog/invariants-before-features/ Wed, 08 Jul 2026 09:00:00 +0000 The four invariants behind Get Camino, set before any code was written, and how each one kept absorbing new surfaces as the product grew. https://www.andrewedmond.com/blog/the-bar-for-ai-built-software/ https://www.andrewedmond.com/blog/the-bar-for-ai-built-software/ Sun, 05 Jul 2026 09:00:00 +0000 The checklist I refused to ship without — real users, full pipelines, tests in CI, monitoring, rate limiting, security headers, and a citation on every claim.