What we have learned building AI that has to keep working.
3 articles on Web & mobile. — written by the people who ship and then maintain the systems.
Web & mobile
Field Software Fails by Abandonment, Not by Bugs
Enterprise field applications rarely fail a test plan. They fail because a surveyor standing in the rain decides the notebook is quicker — and the notebook usually is.
12 May 2026 · 3 min read
Web & mobile
The January Problem: Why Fitness Apps Lose Users by Week Six
Tracking a workout is a solved problem. Keeping someone opening the app once the initial motivation is gone is not, and it is the only thing that decides whether a fitness product survives.
10 March 2026 · 4 min read
Web & mobile
One Codebase, Two Platforms: What Kotlin Multiplatform Actually Shares
Cross-platform pitches promise one codebase and deliver a compromise on both. Kotlin Multiplatform makes a narrower promise — share the logic, keep the native UI — and the narrower promise is the one worth having.
16 September 2025 · 3 min read