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Guides and deep dives.

How-to guides, pattern breakdowns, and project updates.

Tutorial · reads

How to Add a Quality Gate to Your AI Agent in 2 Minutes

Run a baseline, add a reproducible GitHub Actions job, and introduce a quality threshold without blocking the team on legacy findings.

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Pattern Guide · reads

Swallowed Exceptions: How Silent Failures Reach Production

Empty catches and log-and-continue paths can leave systems in an unexpected state. Learn how to review, test, and detect swallowed exceptions.

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Guide · reads

SonarQube and aislop: Where Their AI Code Gates Differ

SonarQube offers broad AI Code Assurance. aislop is a focused local scanner for generated-code hygiene. Compare their overlap, differences, and fit.

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Reference · reads

High-Quality AI Coding Standards: 10 Rules Teams Can Enforce

Ten enforceable standards for AI-assisted code: scope, small patches, validation, error handling, dependencies, tests, complexity, cleanup, and handoff.

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Opinion · reads

Vibe coding, done right

Letting the agent drive is a cheat code. It is also how you ship five unrelated files full of slop at 2am. Here is how we vibe-code without shipping the slop.

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Opinion · reads

AGENTS.md is a sign on the wall. Agents don't read signs.

AGENTS.md is not enough. You have to hold your agent accountable. AGENTS.md is the WHAT. aislop rules are the HOW. aislop ci is the GATE. aislop fix --agent is the LOOP. Four layers, none optional.

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Opinion · reads

Stop cleaning up after your coding agent

Your agent writes code. You clean up. That is backwards.

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Opinion · reads

Nobody reads code anymore. Write for the linter.

Median score across 25 real projects was 15 out of 100. That is what code looks like when nobody is reading it. The linter is the reader now.

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Release · reads

aislop v0.7.0. Config inheritance, public score badge, security floor

extends: lets project configs inherit a parent and override only what they need. The public score badge puts your live aislop score in any README. A postcss security floor closes the only vulnerability aislop's own scan flagged on itself.

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Engineering · reads

If your function needs 80 lines, your agent gave up. If your file needs 400, it never started.

If your function is more than 80 lines, your agent is doing something wrong. If your file is more than 400, same story. We found a 981-line component in the wild.

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