Most development teams that say they use AI are doing one of two things: blindly generating code nobody fully reviews, or slapping "AI-powered" on their website because it sounds good in 2026. Neither of those is a strategy. Both will cost you eventually. We do neither. We use AI tools every day – across coding, testing, design, and documentation. And we have strict rules about where they're allowed and where they're not. The result is software that gets built faster without