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Michal Buczko - Quality Adventures

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Independent / fractional quality & delivery consulting — lessons and how I work with teams.

The Chapter, and the Company It Keeps

The Chapter, and the Company It Keeps

Four weeks ago I put a claim on this blog: trust in software is produced, not felt. Last week I named the four ways AI-assisted delivery quietly stops producing it, and I promised that this post would do something different — walk through what is actually inside the chapter.

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.

Fable 5 came back. It didn't get its job back

Fable 5 came back. It didn't get its job back

My favourite model came back and I didn't give it the architect seat. Not because it got worse — because the seat got measured. What happens to a stack when the tool you were attached to returns.

From Vision to Production: the whole series, in one place

From Vision to Production: the whole series, in one place

Over seven posts I wrote down how it actually happened: what worked, what it cost, and what failed. This is the map to all of it, so you can start wherever you want.

Opus Max as architect: what actually changed when Fable went away

Opus Max as architect: what actually changed when Fable went away

Opus Max as architect: what actually changed when Fable went away. Short answer: less than you'd think — if you know what the tier is for.

I lost my favourite tool and shipped faster anyway

I lost my favourite tool and shipped faster anyway

Fable was the best tool in my stack. Then it went unavailable, and I had to give the architect seat to Opus Max on short notice.What I got was faster hand-offs. This is the post about why — and why I think losing the tool made the work better, not despite the constraint but because of it.