Topic
Engineering
Production systems, performance, and the architecture decisions behind them.
26 Jul 2026
Four AI reviewers, one schema, and a fix I reverted
I had four models audit the same Prisma schema twice each, verified every claim by script, and still implemented a critical finding the application had already solved. What eight AI reviews are good for, and what they are not.
05 Jul 2026
Mapping a legacy Prisma schema without reliable telemetry
More than 150 models, legacy pages still in production, and traffic data I could not trust. How I worked out which models a limited set of functions actually depends on, where the script needed a human, and what the result does not prove.
20 May 2026
Cutting a React Native app from 1.2GB to 350MB
My first mobile app started at 700MB, climbed past 1.2GB, and got OOM-killed on real devices. The full teardown of how it reached a stable 350MB — and why the real leak was the shape of the app, not a setting.