AI Best Practices

Production-grade patterns for shipping AI-generated code safely. Quality gates, review workflows, and reliability engineering for AI-assisted teams.

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AI Code Quality: Make Your Agent Run PHPStan First

Give AI agents a deterministic gate: PHPStan with stubs, Biome rules, Claude Code hooks and git hooks that stop 'done' until the checks pass.

Artem Semkin· Oct 22, 2026

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QA Is Part of the Build: Where Testing Belongs in Your Definition of Done

A demo failed because a shared environment was left in an unknown state. The lesson: QA is not a handoff. It belongs in the engineer's definition of done, at every company size.

Michael Graham· Sep 11, 2026

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AI-Generated UI Components Fail WCAG 2.2: The Review Checklist That Catches It

AI tools generate UI components that look right and fail WCAG 2.2 at scale, for the same reason they skip security. Here is the fast review checklist that catches it before merge.

Michael Graham· Jun 10, 2026