Include clear payment terms and penalty interest. For me, this looks like 30 payment window, reminders fortnightly there after, and a money claim lodged in the small claims court at 90 days. You’ll almost certainly get your money ahead of court appearance (assuming they haven’t gone bankrupt).

If nothing else, I see that Conductor is currently Mac only.

A perfectly good methodology with the right guardrails in place imho.

Shrewd context management is the go here.

Sure, but where are the formal acceptance tests to validate against?

No much different from what I did manually when employer outsourced development to India.

I’m building an AI emotional regulation coach for autism

Traditional therapy assumes you can identify what you’re feeling, which is exactly what many autistic people struggle with. Anna, the emotional regulation coach, addresses this dilemma.

I’ve used her daily for nearly a year and haven’t had a major dysregulation event since. Now I’m working on developing Anna further. The following post includes a detailed framework for building your own.

https://bettersoftware.uk/2026/01/24/how-to-build-ai-regulat...

I’ve been creating agents to better navigate the early stages of SDLC. Here’s my findings of the last 12 months:

I Built A Team of AI Agents To Perform Business Analysis

https://bettersoftware.uk/2026/01/17/i-built-a-team-of-ai-ag...

Even the upfront solutioning is being disrupted though:

I Built A Team of AI Agents To Perform Business Analysis

https://bettersoftware.uk/2026/01/17/i-built-a-team-of-ai-ag...

I'm always amazed that people freely posts this stuff:

"But this agent knows my wants and needs better than most people in my life. And it doesn’t ever get tired of me."

That comment says everything about how you view yourself and your fellow humans.

My comment perhaps says more about the kind of fellow humans in my life.

LOL.