https://crunchloop.io/blog Insights, updates, and technical deep-dives from the Dap team. en-us Mon, 31 Aug 2026 21:56:06 GMT https://crunchloop.io/blog/some-dependencies-cant-be-forked https://crunchloop.io/blog/some-dependencies-cant-be-forked Last month we wrote about forking Bun because waiting on upstream wasn't an option. This month we did something harder: we stopped trying to bend a CLI into a library and wrote our own. Here's how we decided that was the right call. Wed, 20 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT Martín Fernández open-source go devcontainers dependencies embedding https://crunchloop.io/blog/the-economics-of-software-engineering-in-the-age-of-agents https://crunchloop.io/blog/the-economics-of-software-engineering-in-the-age-of-agents A study on how AI is repricing engineering work, why the impact is uneven, and where the value of human engineering judgment is concentrating. Mon, 18 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT Iván Etchart ai ai-driven-development economics engineering research https://crunchloop.io/blog/crunchloop https://crunchloop.io/blog/crunchloop The one thing this AI transition needs that we can't measure: trust. And the humans behind the product that earn it. Wed, 22 Apr 2026 00:00:00 GMT Iván Etchart trust ai crunchloop culture https://crunchloop.io/blog/goliath-had-a-great-harness https://crunchloop.io/blog/goliath-had-a-great-harness We got so comfortable in Claude Code's harness that we confused the armor with the warrior. When you move your agent to another harness, you discover what was you and what was the scaffolding all along. Tue, 14 Apr 2026 00:00:00 GMT Ignacio Cesarani dap ai-agents system-prompt harness-portability https://crunchloop.io/blog/open-source-became-more-reachable https://crunchloop.io/blog/open-source-became-more-reachable AI lowered the barrier to contributing to open source. It didn't lower the standard. Here's what a month of contributions across Bun, Prisma, Bottlerocket, and WebKit taught us about what that actually means. Wed, 08 Apr 2026 00:00:00 GMT Martín Fernández open-source ai-driven-development contributions maintainers https://crunchloop.io/blog/the-quality-gate-ai-agents-cant-game https://crunchloop.io/blog/the-quality-gate-ai-agents-cant-game Unit tests with mocks can't catch an AI agent that confidently ships broken behavior. Gherkin scenarios backed by real integrations can. Here's what ten months of that looks like. Thu, 26 Mar 2026 00:00:00 GMT Iván Etchart dap ai-driven-development testing gherkin acceptance-tests https://crunchloop.io/blog/the-speed-you-cant-ship https://crunchloop.io/blog/the-speed-you-cant-ship AI writes code in minutes. Then the pipeline takes over — and the speed disappears. Most teams are optimizing the wrong side of the equation. Thu, 12 Mar 2026 00:00:00 GMT Martín Fernández dap ai-driven-development delivery-pipeline automation ci-cd https://crunchloop.io/blog/the-bottleneck-flipped https://crunchloop.io/blog/the-bottleneck-flipped We invested heavily in working around AI limitations. Now the AI waits for us. The bottleneck flipped, and most teams haven't noticed. Wed, 04 Mar 2026 00:00:00 GMT Damián Arrillaga dap ai-driven-development human-context process automation https://crunchloop.io/blog/where-your-types-actually-end https://crunchloop.io/blog/where-your-types-actually-end Most TypeScript teams believe they have type safety. They're half right. We built Dap so that a type defined in the deepest layer of the stack is still enforced five packages away — and learned what that actually costs. Thu, 26 Feb 2026 00:00:00 GMT Martín Fernández monorepo typescript architecture type-safety events https://crunchloop.io/blog/building-the-plane-while-flying-it https://crunchloop.io/blog/building-the-plane-while-flying-it We started by researching everything. Then we realized research without building doesn't converge. What we weren't ready for was how fast things would move once we started. Wed, 18 Feb 2026 00:00:00 GMT Ignacio Cesarani dap team-organization ai-speed process https://crunchloop.io/blog/context-is-king-long-live-the-monorepo https://crunchloop.io/blog/context-is-king-long-live-the-monorepo One feature. Twenty-five files. Six packages. Over a thousand lines in a single pull request. In a multi-repo setup, that's six contexts and a human to stitch them together. In the monorepo, the agent shipped it coherently. Wed, 11 Feb 2026 00:00:00 GMT Martín Fernández monorepo typescript architecture ai-driven-development https://crunchloop.io/blog/the-signal-under-the-noise https://crunchloop.io/blog/the-signal-under-the-noise AI changed how fast people can produce. It also changed how hard it is to learn. We're building Dap to find the signal under the noise. Wed, 04 Feb 2026 00:00:00 GMT Damián Arrillaga dap learning ai-noise cognitive-debt teaching https://crunchloop.io/blog/the-debt-we-didnt-see-coming https://crunchloop.io/blog/the-debt-we-didnt-see-coming AI changed the economics of technical debt. As the old debt got cheaper, other kinds of debt became visible—higher up the stack, harder to name. Mon, 02 Feb 2026 00:00:00 GMT Iván Etchart dap technical-debt product-debt cognitive-debt ai https://crunchloop.io/blog/introducing-dap https://crunchloop.io/blog/introducing-dap After four years of building software alongside our customers, we're building something to make those partnerships deeper. Here's why. Mon, 19 Jan 2026 00:00:00 GMT Martín Fernández dap ai-driven-development announcement