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AI is often sold as a magic button. In practice it pays off where there is a lot of repetitive work with text and data, clear rules and a person who checks the result. Here is where we see real value and how to start without big risks.
Mainlane is one engineer and a team of AI agents. That raises a fair question: who checks the code an AI wrote? Our answer is another AI — one that didn’t write it — followed by a human who decides whether it ships.
LiveWall is a small Mac app that turns videos into your desktop wallpaper. It’s a niche tool, so we could have shipped it in English only. We shipped it in 15 languages instead, and the App Store page too. Here is why, and how we keep 15 languages from turning into 15 sources of bugs.
Making a website fast once is easy. Keeping it fast while you keep adding features is the hard part: every new component, font or library makes the page a little heavier, and nobody notices until the site feels slow. So we stopped treating speed as a one-off audit and made it a test that every…