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Ten developers, ten AI agents, ten house styles. We wrote the standard as skills, built a script that puts them on every machine within the hour, and an orchestrator that takes a Jira epic and turns it into reviewed, acceptance-tested pull requests. The design, and the scars.

A probe that only fills in two scheduled checks a day misses the fridge that dies at midnight. How we redesigned HACCP temperature monitoring around a moving-average gate, a state row per probe, sparse-index sweeps and a stream-as-outbox — and the alternatives we rejected.

I scraped thousands of recipes for my food AI platform. I started with requests + BeautifulSoup, rewrote everything in Scrapy, and ran an 84-test migration audit. This is what I learned about engineering choices, testing, and when a framework actually matters.

I've been writing software professionally for the better part of a decade. I've never really written any of it down. This blog is my attempt to fix that.