Now, with more than half a year working with a mix of product builders and devs, I can see how painful it is to create these new processes and guardrails. Right now we’re testing Claude Code Review. Still inconclusive. Sometimes it was incredible and sometimes it didn’t even respond… ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ Anyone out there with good experiences creating processes and guardrails?
What we did as a “hack”: a test environment for product builders. Now we’re struggling to modularize it and send it to the dev environment. What we know: it should have been small PRs, and in dev. What’s done is done and lesson learned — nothing like good software engineering to solve problems of… software process. lol
Where we could get to: code review on critical PRs, CI/CD with plenty of guardrails, mandatory review by someone from tech. Some things we’re now modularizing so not everything lives in the monolith, especially the more experimental stuff. Anything else I’m not seeing?
I feel there are still things to improve…. :/
Originally written in Portuguese and published on LinkedIn on July 28, 2026. I translated it into English with the help of AI (Claude): it let me bring my LinkedIn posts to people who don’t read Portuguese without rewriting each one from scratch. I reviewed the translation to keep my original meaning and tone.