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AI vendor lock-in: measure your exit in days before you sign

AI vendor lock-in is measured in days-to-switch, not in price per token. The two architecture paths, what each costs, and the exit test you can run in one afternoon.

Victhor Araújo

AI software development ROI: the 4 numbers that measure it

AI software development ROI comes down to four numbers that need no code reading, plus the contract clauses to demand from a vendor before you sign.

Victhor Araújo

AI software development: review is the new bottleneck

Anthropic went from 2,500 to over 30,000 merges a day in four months. Three numbers from your own repo that show whether verification fell behind.

Victhor Araújo

How to evaluate developer work without reading code

Four measurements any non-technical founder can run, the startup I lost by writing deadlines in a notebook, and the cases where this ruler breaks down.

Victhor Araújo

Inherited spaghetti code: the first 7 days, in order

Inherited spaghetti code from a vendor that left? The order of the first 7 days: what to measure before writing a line, what to freeze, and how it turns into three timelines.

Victhor Araújo

AI code review: how far you can take the human out

AI code review approves what a rule can verify. Anything that changes business behaviour still needs a person. Where to draw the line, and the month-14 bill.

Victhor Araújo

Technical debt from AI coding agents: how to measure the bill

Technical debt written by coding agents never shows up as a bug, it shows up as schedule. Three counts you can run this afternoon, plus what to change in code review.

Victhor Araújo

Trade secret valuation: pricing the know-how inside your code

Trade secret valuation runs on replacement cost, income attribution and comparables. How to inventory your business rules and build the evidence buyers ask for in diligence.

Victhor Araújo

AI that picks vs AI that writes: where each belongs in your system

Closed decisions (classify, route, validate) call for a model that picks and errors you can count. Free text needs human review. How to decide and test it, with Jev as the case.

Victhor Araújo

App developers for hire: 5 questions to ask before you sign

Five questions a non-technical founder can ask app developers for hire to spot a failing project in month one, plus freelancer vs fixed-bid vs dedicated team.

Victhor Araújo

Incremental migration vs big-bang: what each one costs your roadmap

Upgrades of the same tech belong in every sprint. A different tech is a project, and even that ships in slices. What each path costs and where the rule breaks.

Victhor Araújo

Scraper traffic is inflating your cloud bill: how to measure it

At git.kernel.org, 14 CPU cores do nothing but render pages for scrapers, more than all legitimate access combined. How to split bots from humans in your logs first.

Victhor Araújo