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Stack & engineering
The locked, opinionated stack behind the Novus ecosystem and how it is built — code-as-content architecture, type-safe content, edge rendering, and the AI-assisted engineering workflow that ships it solo.
15 articles
Field notes · Jun 7, 2026
How we standardized on Claude Code to build our apps
Our path through AI coding tools and LLMs, and why an agentic flow won out for a small business.
Novus Stream Solutions (hub)
Field guide · Jun 7, 2026
Reliability hardening: device lifecycle, model integrity, and honest failures
An engineering note on the unglamorous guarantees that make a tool trustworthy — and why honest failures beat silent wrong answers.
Stack & engineering
Field guide · Jun 6, 2026
Audit every tool, not just the broken one: the "all-tools" doctrine behind our refactors
Why a bug reported in one place is almost always a pattern that lives in several, and the discipline of fixing the pattern everywhere at once.
Engineering
Field guide · Jun 5, 2026
Running a multi-agent research sprint before touching code
How to use parallel agents to understand a problem completely before changing anything, and why that front-loaded research pays for itself on large work.
Engineering
Field guide · Jun 5, 2026
Managing the context window on a large refactor: what broke and how we fixed our sessions
A workflow lesson, not model marketing: how to structure a large refactor so it survives the limits of what can be held in working context at once.
Engineering
Field guide · Jun 4, 2026
The approver model: running a build pipeline where AI writes and you review
The operating model for one person directing AI execution: what the human keeps, what the agent takes, and how to keep the review meaningful.
Engineering
Field guide · Jun 4, 2026
Guardrails and human review: where we let the agent run and where we don't
A practical map of where AI agents operate autonomously and where a human checkpoint is non-negotiable, and the reasoning behind each boundary.
Engineering
Field guide · Jun 3, 2026
Shipping on Vercel solo: the deploy and preview workflow that keeps overhead near zero
The deploy, preview, and rollback loop that removes the ops tax from running multiple apps as a solo operator.
Engineering
Field guide · Jun 3, 2026
Our three-mode workflow: prompt expansion → planning → coding (and why we never skip the middle)
Why the planning pass between understanding a request and writing code is the step that determines whether AI-assisted development produces something maintainable.
Engineering