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Michal Buczko - Quality Adventures

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Working with Anthropic's Claude models across the delivery stack — strengths, limits, and where judgment still rules.

The Complete AI Orchestration Journey: From Claude Web Chat to Production iOS App

The Complete AI Orchestration Journey: From Claude Web Chat to Production iOS App

The reference notes I wrote in November 2025, before BowSmith shipped: four phases, the original 17-agent team, the prompt template that cut context drift, and the failures. Lightly updated, with pointers to where the thinking went next.

Routing rules: which tier gets which task

Routing rules: which tier gets which task

Because here's the thing the token argument clears the ground for. Once you stop chasing the single best model, and stop pretending you can price the decision to three decimal places, the real skill comes into focus. It was never "which model is best." It's which task goes where.

Trust Is Produced, Not Felt

Trust Is Produced, Not Felt

Most teams treat trust as something that settles over a codebase — a feeling that builds up after enough green pipelines and enough uneventful releases. That is not trust. That is familiarity, and it feels identical right up to the morning it doesn't.

Opus 5: the middle ground I actually chose

Opus 5: the middle ground I actually chose

A tool I relied on vanished, and I scrambled. I wrote a job description for the empty seat and dropped a stand-in into it. The favourite came back, and I found it a different seat rather than its old one. Then I went to a conference and let a room full of sceptics pressure-test the whole thing.

The arc ended on a stage: what a room of testers did to the thesis

The arc ended on a stage: what a room of testers did to the thesis

The slides and the full talk breakdown live on the other track. This isn't that post. This is the other thing that happened at CAST26, and the reason this series ended on a stage at all: seven posts' worth of argument, finally standing in front of a room that got to push back.

CAST 2026 - Open season: what a room full of sceptics taught me about the quality gate

CAST 2026 - Open season: what a room full of sceptics taught me about the quality gate

I promised you this recap two weeks running. Here it is — and I'm glad I waited, because it took me a fortnight to work out what the conference was actually about for me, and it wasn't the talk I gave.

I Wrote a Chapter About Trust. A Machine Helped Me Test the Argument.

I Wrote a Chapter About Trust. A Machine Helped Me Test the Argument.

Post 1 of 5 — announcing "AI Transformation" and my chapter, "Quality at Machine Speed". Some news I've been sitting on for a while: this August, I'm becoming a published book author.