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How to brief a contract developer in the AI era: a one-page spec that gets you a working build

A developer working with AI agents can build what you described in days, including the parts you described badly. Here is a one-page brief a non-technical founder can fill in, with a worked example, and what changes when the person you hire builds with AI.

October 10, 2026

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The EU AI Act since August 2026: what a small software vendor actually has to do

The big high-risk deadline moved to December 2027 three weeks before it was due. What did start on 2 August 2026 is smaller and reaches far more products: telling people when they are talking to AI and marking what it generates. A plain guide for vendors outside the EU.

October 10, 2026

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Your Lovable app is live. Five things to check before a stranger does, with the commands

We set a table up the way an AI builder often leaves it and asked for its rows without signing in. All of them came back. Here are five checks you can run on your own Lovable and Supabase app in about twenty minutes, with the exact commands and what the answers should look like.

October 10, 2026

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Buy, build or prompt: why companies are replacing SaaS tools with in-house AI-built apps

A third of teams in Retool's 2026 survey have already swapped at least one SaaS subscription for something they built themselves. Building got cheap. Owning didn't. Here's when an AI-built internal tool pays for itself, when it doesn't, and the third option most teams forget.

October 9, 2026

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