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Helper CTO Series 26 | Projects Built With Cursor, Claude Code, or Lovable: What to Prepare Before Handing Them to Engineers

恩梯科技 2026-10-13 54

Handing off a product built with AI tools to an engineer without preparation means the engineer spends half their time hunting for things. This article gives non-engineer owners four handoff essentials: where the code is, how to run it, which external services were used, and which features you actually wanted — and explains why an evaluation only needs read access to the code.

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Helper CTO Series 17 | Don't Let Handover Become a Black Box: A Minimal Documentation Set to Leave Behind

恩梯科技 2026-10-04 266

When an engineer leaves saying "it's all in the code," the next person is left doing archaeology. This article doesn't call for a thick manual, just five one-page documents: where the system runs, how to deploy, where the data is, who can log in, how common issues are handled, and how to keep it from going stale.

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Helper CTO Series 13 | The First Month After Taking Over Someone Else's Code

恩梯科技 2026-09-30 329

Handing a system to a new team is unsettling when you're afraid you'll pay and see nothing happen. This article lays out the first month of a handover on a timeline: week 1 is look-only, week 2 adds backups, monitoring, and a repeatable deployment, weeks 3-4 tackle only the three most urgent items, and here's what you get by the end of the month.

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Helper CTO Series 02 | Your Engineer Left and the System's Still Running: 12 Things to Get Back First

恩梯科技 2026-09-19 410

After an engineer leaves, a system keeps running and most owners choose not to touch it — until a credential expires, a hosting payment fails, or a vulnerability gets exploited, and only then do they find the password isn't even in the company's hands. This article lists 12 items to recover first, three ways to proceed when they're out of reach, and the first thing to do once you get them back.

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