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Nextside's blog on technology, management, and rapid delivery — by the engineers who decide what goes into the Sprint and what stays out.
Nextside Blog
Nextside's blog on technology, management, and rapid delivery — by the engineers who decide what goes into the Sprint and what stays out.
Latest posts
Your margin on reselling a tool doesn't come from the cheapest dev. It comes from a predictable delivery that doesn't come back broken on you.
read →Inherited a stuck vibe-coded MVP to scale? Rewriting from scratch is the costliest mistake. The honest diagnosis: what to save, what to rewrite, how to stabilize.
read →The request landed, it's new revenue, and your team froze. Why a dev shop is expensive, an in-house hire is worse, and what the third way is.
read →The MVP that turns to junk wasn't built too fast. It merged everything to save time and kept the feature nobody uses. What to cut and what to keep.
read →In an AI-built MVP, what makes it an MVP that scales isn't the stack. It's whether the coding agent still navigates your repo six months later.
read →Why vibe coding stalls the moment you try to scale, and how spec-driven development delivers an order of magnitude less rework with AI agents.
read →Spec-Driven Development externalizes intent into markdown, but pushes the pain into execution. Orchestrate with state outside the model's window.
read →You can have Claude navigate and test your app in the simulator like Playwright does on the web. With Maestro: one YAML, iOS and Android, zero instrumentation.
read →A team went from 2 weeks of PR backlog to zero human review on staging. How CodeRabbit works, where it breaks, and why CLAUDE.md is the single source.
read →Before asking for a human review, Claude with MCP Playwright has already navigated your app, taken screenshots, and flagged regressions. Local, on your dev, in seconds.
read →Claude Code superpowers isn't just another AI plugin. It's how you encode team knowledge into a place the machine reads and executes every time.
read →ADR isn't corporate ceremony. It's the cheapest way to stop repeating the same mistakes, and to make Claude Code consult your decisions before coding.
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