Thoughts, Tips & Insights
Insights and playbooks from Valery Satsura.
Agents don't make APIs obsolete. They make them the part of your product that matters most. The model decides what to do; your API decides what's allowed and does it. Where MCP fits, what to expose first, and seven checks before an agent calls you. Read more
Twenty-five yes-or-no questions about your repo, logins, data, payments, secrets and error tracking. Most need a dashboard, not a terminal. Thirty minutes and one score tell you whether you need help. Read more
Before you pay $500 for an audit, you should see what comes back. Here's a sample built from a real AI-built codebase, details changed: six findings with severity, a keep, fix or replace verdict for each, and a plan with one fixed price per phase. Read more
Most RAG projects start with a folder of documents, not a user problem. Before you build an index, answer four questions: is the answer in your documents, does the text fit in the prompt, who may see what, and is finding the source really the hard part. Read more
You don't need to read every file of a vibe-coded SaaS to know how it was built. Eleven greps, about thirty minutes: six show how the project was run, five find damage that breaks production or leaks data. Commands included. Read more
Irresistible Bot took one month and $5,000. That budget doesn't buy an AI strategy. It buys one job done well. Here's the four-part test for which jobs fit in 30 days, and what we'd tell you not to build at that price. Read more
AI vendors say output varies, so the price can't be fixed. The output does vary. The test you judge it by doesn't have to. A narrow acceptance test in four parts turns an open-ended AI project into one both sides can price and sign off. Read more
We write production code with AI agents every day, and we get hired to take over codebases that agents wrote with nobody steering. The tool is the same. Here is what we hand the agent, what never leaves a human, and the one rule behind both. Read more
Four public, sourced vibe-coding incidents from March 2025 to early 2026: a paywall enforced in the browser, apps with open databases, an AI agent that wiped production, and a leaked database key. Only one is known to have died. Here is what broke in each. Read more
Picking one tool for a whole workflow is the mistake. Split it into steps first. Rules go in code, plumbing between systems goes in a workflow tool like n8n, and a model handles only the steps that are genuinely ambiguous. Here's how to tell which is which. Read more
