Astrovion · Field Notes
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What we build, break, and learn: web development, DevOps, and shipping software that lasts.
Latest1 min readOleksii Buhaiov
What the research says about AI and your working time in 2026 — why per-task claims of 80% shrink to 2–3% of the week, which tasks it speeds up and which it slows, who gains most, and the checking time every headline leaves out.
Read articleWhat a pentest actually costs in 2026 — the $5,000–$30,000 web-app band, the day rates behind it, how many tester-days each scope takes, which rules really require one, and how to tell a pentest from a scan with a cover page.
What SOC 2, GDPR, HIPAA and the EU AI Act actually cost a software company — the audit fee versus the all-in number, the 240–380 hours nobody invoices, where the published figures come from, and the deadline that moved while everyone kept quoting the old one.
A buyer's guide to hiring an AI automation partner — what the tiers actually cost, the ten questions that have falsifiable answers, what the quote leaves out, and the one condition without which no agency can prove anything.
How much more it costs to build and run a product once you add AI — the +15–30% premium, the 2–2.5× multiple hiding in vendor tables, what the money actually buys, and the run cost nobody puts in the proposal.