The EU AI Act didn’t pause: Article 50 and the December 2026 deadline
EU AI Act Article 50 is live. If your GenAI product was on the EU market before 2 Aug 2026, output marking is due 2 Dec 2026. What to build.
Software Development
BLITZ without skipping QA: quality gates for a 4-week MVP
MVP quality gates that fit a 4-week build: signed scope, a golden set for the AI feature, CI tests, a security pass, and a go/no-go. Plus what to defer.
DPDP proof packs: artefacts auditors and boards ask for
After the DPDP roadmap, readiness is artefacts you can show. A proof-pack inventory for logs, purpose registry, DSR SLAs, retention, and board-ready evidence.
Moving off a legacy platform without breaking what works
Big-bang rewrites break the paths that still earn money. A safer legacy system migration keeps the old platform earning while you grow a new edge beside it: coexistence, parity contracts, traffic shaping, sync with reconciliation, and rollback that is a config change.
How QA moved in the AI era
Releases got faster and bugs got sneakier. How QA roles, tools, and techniques moved from classic automation to AI-assisted testing, eval harnesses, and the work we still keep human.