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Artificial Intelligence|Jun 3, 2026

GitHub All-Stars vol.17: CodeBurn - The $200/Day Therapy Session Your Terminal Didn't Know It Needed

A slightly unsettling realization hit us at VirtusLab not long ago - our collective list of starred GitHub repositories had quietly ballooned into something that could generously be called "a problem." Instead of pretending it wasn't happening, we decided to lean into it: every two weeks, we pick a trending open-source project, pull the hood off, and tell you what we find underneath. We focus on fresh, relatively unknown repos - not the usual suspects that everybody and their tech newsletter already covered (because let's be honest, you don't need us for that).

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Artificial Intelligence|May 12, 2026

We're Building on Quicksand, and Most Teams Don't Know It

Tomek Lelek and I wrote Vibe Engineering because we kept seeing the same mistake everywhere: teams confusing the speed of generation with the speed of delivery. Vibe coding, that intuition-first, prompt-driven mode where you accept what the AI gives you without deep verification, is genuinely valuable. It's the digital sketchpad. It's how you turn a foggy idea into a working interface in an afternoon. I use it. You probably should too.

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Artificial Intelligence|Apr 29, 2026

Visdom: AI Works Great. At Level Four.

AI adoption gaps stem from a missing common vocabulary. A maturity matrix with five levels and four perspectives helps organizations honestly assess where they truly stand.

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Artificial Intelligence|Apr 21, 2026

Sandboxing LLM coding agents: part 2

This practical guide demonstrates how to implement sandboxed LLM coding agents using Agent Sandbox. Learn the complete setup process, from initialization and runtime configuration to managing network policies and handling authentication. Discover advanced patterns for Java projects, IDE integration, and security considerations for safe AI-assisted development workflows.

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Artificial Intelligence|Apr 21, 2026

Visdom: Shadow AI Is Already in Your Codebase

This is post #4 in The Agent-Ready SDLC series. In post #1 we laid out the Ferrari-in-a-Fiat-500 problem - the engine is great, the chassis isn't. In post #2 we covered the first bottleneck: context. In post #3 we covered the second: feedback loops. Now we're at the third piece - and it's the one nobody wants to talk about.

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Artificial Intelligence|Apr 15, 2026

Sandboxing LLM coding agents: part 1

LLM coding agents moved fast from cloud demos to tools running on developer workstations. They don't just suggest code anymore. They execute it. They start shells, install packages, edit repos, run tests, and sometimes open PRs. All with the same permissions you have. In the first part of the miniseries, Jakub Bocheński will look at Context, Motivation, and available sandboxing tools.

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Artificial Intelligence|Apr 13, 2026

Interview with Krzysztof Grajek, Principal Software Developer at SoftwareMill and the lead engineer behind Visdom Governance

As AI tools take over more and more of the actual coding work, a new question emerges: who's watching what they do? Visdom Governance is a tool designed to bring that control back. Krzysztof Grajek, Principal Software Developer at SoftwareMill and the lead engineer behind Visdom Governance, talks about why the rise of AI-generated code demands a completely new approach to trust, auditability, and documentation.

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Artificial Intelligence|Apr 13, 2026

Visdom: Your CI is an Oracle... that lies too

This is post #3 in The Agent-Ready SDLC series. In post #1 we laid out the Ferrari-in-a-Fiat-500 problem - the engine is great, the chassis isn't. In post #2 we covered the first bottleneck: context. Now we're at the second bottleneck - the one that sits between your agent and reality.

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Artificial Intelligence|Apr 10, 2026

AI in the SDLC: Faster or Just Busier?

As AI accelerates code generation, many teams are discovering that speed gains often come with hidden costs in review, validation, and complexity. We sat down with Krzysztof Romanowski to unpack what’s really happening inside modern engineering organizations.

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Artificial Intelligence|Apr 10, 2026

Cognitive Debt: The code nobody understands

AI-generated code creates cognitive debt as developers accept code they don't understand. Learn how this hidden risk threatens teams and how to fight back.

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Artificial Intelligence|Apr 7, 2026

Visdom: Your README Is a Lie

Open any README in your repository. That flagship one. The one that's 800 lines long with a "Getting Started" section written in 2022. Read it with fresh eyes - as if you were a new developer, or better yet - as an AI agent who's never been to a standup, never seen Slack, never heard the legend of why we don't touch the InvoiceReconciler class in the payment service. Now ask yourself one question: based on this README, can you safely modify anything in this service?

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Artificial Intelligence|Apr 3, 2026

SFT: Scaling Small Vision-Language Models for High-Load Invoice Processing

While API based LLMs are great for rapid, fast, and easy development, they can be less secure and costly in the long-term horizon for load-intensive applications. The solution are Small Language Models (SLM), self-hosted and finetuned on the downstream task. This article presents a case study of a Supervised Fine-Tuning (SFT) of the SLM on the Invoice Processing task. It shows that while SLMs have higher investment costs at start, they are faster, cheaper, and more secure in the long-term, especially for high-load intensive applications.

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