Articles on engineering onboarding, AI for developers, codebase analysis, code security, and the future of how teams understand software. Written by the builders of Xolvyn.
Engineers take 3+ weeks to ship their first PR on a new codebase. Here's the systematic 3-day onboarding process that fixes the real problem: tribal knowledge. A complete framework with exact exercises for each day.
Read article →Why your codebase is documented in your senior engineers' heads — and the systematic process for making it explicit.
Most codebases have 3-5 files that, if broken, take down 80% of the system. Here's how to identify yours.
Generic AI assistants guess. Codebase-grounded AI knows. The critical difference between training-data AI and dependency-graph AI.