Notes from the Wakoo team
Field notes on finding where to look, what to change, and what to follow after.
False Creativity: When AI Generates Ideas Without Generating Thought
Ask for ten ideas and you get ten in seconds, clean and presentable. That is exactly when to be wary: a model is very good at the plausible, and the plausible is sometimes the direct enemy of the original. The risk is not that AI lacks creativity, it is that it looks creative while quietly pulling teams toward the average.
To Patch or to Break: The Ever-Present Dilemma of Modern IT
An update is supposed to be good news, and often it is: it closes a known vulnerability before someone exploits it. It can also break a business integration at month-end closing. Patching too slowly exposes the company; patching without method can break it.
The Two Speeds: Why Faster Code Isn't Better Code
AI can generate code fast, but the data on AI-assisted development tells a more cautious story: more bugs per pull request, more security findings, and a controlled study where experienced developers were measurably slower, not faster.
The Objectivity of AI: Why AI Can Fail Even When It Obeys
The paperclip factory and the car wash paradox: two examples, one problem. AI doesn't become dangerous by being malicious: it becomes dangerous by optimizing the wrong thing.
Fable 5: Quality Comes at a Price
The most powerful models think longer, and cost more. How the "effort" parameter, token burn and structured workflows change what it means to use AI well.
Code Agents: When AI Takes Center Stage in the Project
Code agents no longer just suggest: they read, modify, test and open pull requests. A major shift, with real strengths, real weaknesses, and risks that teams cannot afford to ignore.
MCP: Connecting AI Agents to the Real World
AI agents no longer just answer, they act. MCP (Model Context Protocol) is the USB-C port that connects them to your tools, and it's quietly becoming the standard. What it is, why it matters, and what it lets loose.
AI in the Age of Tokens: After the Hype, the Bill
GitHub Copilot is moving to pay-as-you-go token billing, the “Tokenpocalypse.” What a token really is, why the shift is happening, and what “AI FinOps” means for your team.
Where to look when checkout suddenly slows down
A slow checkout rarely has one obvious cause. Here's how to go from a vague complaint to the exact place to start: without grepping nine systems.
What we mean by “a GPS for developers”
Not a coding agent, not monitoring, not code search. Wakoo answers a different question: where do I even start?
Read-only by default: why Wakoo never writes to your code
Connecting a new tool to your stack shouldn't widen your attack surface. Here's our default posture.
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