Articles
Notes from the field.
Long-form thinking on quality engineering, AI in engineering, release governance, and the discipline of building systems that earn trust.
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May 19, 2026
Managing Offshore QA in 2026: The Quality Operating System
Distributed QA is not a people problem — it is a systems problem. The five-pillar Quality Operating System I use to make release decisions repeatable across time zones: AI to reduce noise, CI to narrow scope, observability to prove impact, governance to keep it stable.
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April 22, 2026
Quality is the precision of the first decision
AI is a turbo engine. It doesn't correct direction — it accelerates it. If your starting point is misaligned, AI will scale the mistake with perfect efficiency.
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March 14, 2026
The Living Rules File: AI governance that actually compounds
Every team using Cursor, Copilot, or Claude Code hits the same wall: new session, same mistakes. The Living Rules File converts recurring AI failures into version-controlled rules with CI enforcement.