AI won't save you money
The companies looking to cut headcount with AI are asking the wrong question. The real opportunity is building everything you never could afford to.
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The Spark Blog
Thinking on enterprise software, AI development, and building better businesses.
Review thoroughly
AI agents write code faster than any human can review it. The answer is to fight fire with fire — and to do it in parallel.
Read more →Inside the machine
AI agents are writing all the code. The engineer's job is now to see what's actually happening — and that makes observability the most important skill in the industry.
Read more →Store documentation with code
Documentation that lives outside your repository will drift from the code. It is not a risk — it is a certainty.
Read more →Data quality matters
In 2026, everyone is talking about AI. Nobody is talking about column names. They should be.
Read more →Why AI-driven development isn't a gimmick
The case for taking AI coding tools seriously — and what enterprise teams should actually expect from them.
Read more →Our gen AI workflow
After several iterations, this is our workflow for getting the most out of AI agents.
Read more →Life gets agentic
The world of software development is changing fast and so is most of the knowledge worker world.
Read more →Patch often
Keeping software dependencies up to date is unglamorous, neglected, and more important than you think.
Read more →JSON data
A simple, typed JSON data exchange format that scales better than the usual key-value approach.
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