Surviving the AI Hangover: A Leader’s Guide to Fixing Unstable AI-Generated Codebases
28 May 2026
It started with unparalleled velocity. For quarters, your engineering metrics looked brilliant. Features were shipping at record speeds, lines of code written per day skyrocketed, and the product team was ecstatic. Tools like GitHub Copilot, Claude Code, and OpenAI’s latest models felt like pure magic. Then, the hangover set in. Suddenly, production is plagued by […]
Code is Cheap, Context is Expensive: Why Replacing Developers with AI is a Costly Mistake
27 May 2026
The pitch is everywhere: Fire your developers. Hire an AI agent. Ship faster for a fraction of the cost. For founders and business leaders staring down ballooning engineering payrolls, it sounds like the ultimate silver bullet. But as a Fractional CTO who has rescued more than a few stalled mobile projects, I can tell you […]
AI Won’t Fix Your Broken Software Team
2 February 2026
When projects slip, the conversation is predictable: deadlines are sliding, quality is suffering, and someone suggests using AI to help the team move faster. It’s seductive logic: if our constraint is delivery speed, and AI increases velocity, then AI solves our problem. Except it doesn’t. Because in most struggling projects, speed was never the real constraint.