Most class-level, mock-heavy unit tests are fast but brittle and punish refactoring. A higher-ROI approach is boundary testing: verify behavior at module/API boundaries, mock only external systems, and track scenario coverage over line coverage - bui...
by Shrikant Vashishtha
Global remote teams across time zones often find daily standups wasteful or impossible. No-Standup replaces meetings with async check-in/out, intentional handovers in Slack, visible work, and weekly demos/retros - keeping progress flowing without ove...
by Shrikant Vashishtha
With AI coding assistants reality is nuanced. Specs drift, context windows fail, and micromanagement becomes constant. Without strong architecture, testing, and senior oversight, AI creates chaos. It excels at boilerplate and review—but it doesn’t re...
by Emmanuelle Delescolle, Tiziano Perrucci
Hiring a cross-functional squad can cost the same as hiring one individual—but deliver far more value. Squads work on outcomes, not hours, reduce meeting overhead, avoid unused capacity, and start delivering from week one. That’s why more founders ar...
by Shrikant Vashishtha
In December I let three AI coding assistants, Claude Sonnet 4.5, GPT-OSS and Kimi-K2, solve Advent of Code independently. All 12 days passed. GPT-OSS showed fully local AI works; Kimi-K2 hardcoded outputs; AIs know algorithms but reinvent wheels. Wha...
by Emmanuelle Delescolle
Stop flaky Java integration tests. Mocktail records real REST/service method responses once and replays them from disk for fast, deterministic runs—no hand-crafted mocks, more realistic scenarios, and happier CI pipelines.
by Shrikant Vashishtha