<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?><rss version="2.0"><channel><title>coderband blog</title><description>coderband is a senior software studio. We rescue AI-built apps, ship production AI features in 10 days and make GPU inference faster and cheaper, at fixed prices you can pay today.</description><link>https://coder.band/</link><item><title>12 Red Flags When Hiring a Software Development Agency</title><link>https://coder.band/blog/red-flags-hiring-software-development-agency/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://coder.band/blog/red-flags-hiring-software-development-agency/</guid><description>Twelve red flags when hiring a software agency: unnamed teams, quotes with no discovery, IP that never transfers, no repo access. What to ask before you sign.</description><pubDate>Tue, 10 Nov 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>White-Label Development in 2026: Selling AI Work Without an AI Team</title><link>https://coder.band/blog/white-label-ai-development-for-agencies/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://coder.band/blog/white-label-ai-development-for-agencies/</guid><description>White-label AI development for agencies: who owns the client, code and liability, vendor margin benchmarks, contract terms, GDPR Art. 28, and picking a partner.</description><pubDate>Thu, 05 Nov 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>How to Evaluate an LLM Feature Before You Ship It (2026)</title><link>https://coder.band/blog/evaluate-llm-feature-before-shipping/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://coder.band/blog/evaluate-llm-feature-before-shipping/</guid><description>Define pass/fail criteria, build a test set from real inputs, grade with code first and a calibrated LLM judge second, and gate every change on it.</description><pubDate>Tue, 03 Nov 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>FP8 and NVFP4 for Image Generation: What Changes and When It Pays</title><link>https://coder.band/blog/fp8-nvfp4-image-generation/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://coder.band/blog/fp8-nvfp4-image-generation/</guid><description>FP8 makes diffusion transformers 1.2–1.9x faster with about 40% less memory from Ada GPUs on; NVFP4 adds 1.1–1.7x on Blackwell only. Costs, quality, tooling.</description><pubDate>Thu, 29 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>HTTP2Shell (CVE-2026-111497): Is Your Node or Python App Exposed?</title><link>https://coder.band/blog/http2shell-brotli-cve-2026-111497/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://coder.band/blog/http2shell-brotli-cve-2026-111497/</guid><description>A Brotli decoder bug hits Node.js, Bun, Python and more. Upgrade Node to 22.23.4, 24.22.1 or 26.12.1 and pip Brotli to 1.2.1, then check what your app fetches.</description><pubDate>Tue, 27 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>PHP2Shell (CVE-2026-109618/109619): What to Patch and How to Check</title><link>https://coder.band/blog/php2shell-cve-2026-109618-109619/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://coder.band/blog/php2shell-cve-2026-109618-109619/</guid><description>PHP2Shell lets attackers run code on almost any PHP web server without logging in. Upgrade to PHP 8.5.12, 8.4.27, 8.3.36 or 8.2.35, restart PHP, then verify.</description><pubDate>Thu, 22 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>How Much Does Technical Due Diligence Cost in 2026?</title><link>https://coder.band/blog/technical-due-diligence-cost-2026/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://coder.band/blog/technical-due-diligence-cost-2026/</guid><description>Tech due diligence costs about $5K–$35K for a light review, $15K–$75K for a full specialist review and $60K–$150K+ for large M&amp;A in 2026. What drives it.</description><pubDate>Tue, 20 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>Supabase Row Level Security: 10 Mistakes AI-Built Apps Make</title><link>https://coder.band/blog/supabase-row-level-security-mistakes/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://coder.band/blog/supabase-row-level-security-mistakes/</guid><description>The 10 Supabase RLS mistakes in AI-built apps, from RLS left off to user_metadata roles and leaky views, with bad and fixed SQL and a test for each one.</description><pubDate>Thu, 15 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>Lovable vs Bolt vs Replit vs Cursor: Which Survives Production?</title><link>https://coder.band/blog/lovable-vs-bolt-vs-replit-vs-cursor-production/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://coder.band/blog/lovable-vs-bolt-vs-replit-vs-cursor-production/</guid><description>None of the four is production-ready by default. Replit guards live data best, Cursor&apos;s code is most portable, Lovable and Bolt fail on Supabase access rules.</description><pubDate>Tue, 13 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>How Much Does an AI Agent or LLM Feature Cost in 2026?</title><link>https://coder.band/blog/cost-to-build-ai-agent-2026/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://coder.band/blog/cost-to-build-ai-agent-2026/</guid><description>AI agent and LLM feature costs in 2026: build ranges by tier, current OpenAI, Anthropic and Google token prices, and a worked monthly run-cost example.</description><pubDate>Thu, 08 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>How to Cut GPU Inference Costs for Image Generation (2026 Guide)</title><link>https://coder.band/blog/cut-gpu-inference-costs-diffusion/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://coder.band/blog/cut-gpu-inference-costs-diffusion/</guid><description>Cut diffusion inference costs with FP8, NVFP4, torch.compile, TensorRT, distillation and caching. Current GPU prices, cost-per-image math and benchmarking.</description><pubDate>Tue, 06 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>Fixed-Price vs T&amp;M vs Retainer: Which Contract to Choose?</title><link>https://coder.band/blog/fixed-price-vs-time-and-materials-vs-retainer/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://coder.band/blog/fixed-price-vs-time-and-materials-vs-retainer/</guid><description>Fixed-price, time and materials, or retainer? Who carries the risk in each, deposit norms, how refund guarantees work, and the questions to ask before you sign.</description><pubDate>Thu, 01 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>How Much Does It Cost to Fix a Vibe-Coded App in 2026?</title><link>https://coder.band/blog/cost-to-fix-vibe-coded-app/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://coder.band/blog/cost-to-fix-vibe-coded-app/</guid><description>Fixing a vibe-coded app in 2026 runs about $200–$5,000 for an audit, $7,500–$40,000 to stabilize, and $50,000+ for a full rescue or rebuild. Here&apos;s why.</description><pubDate>Tue, 29 Sep 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>AI-Built App Production Checklist: Lovable, Bolt, Cursor</title><link>https://coder.band/blog/ai-app-production-readiness-checklist/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://coder.band/blog/ai-app-production-readiness-checklist/</guid><description>54 checks across 9 areas to take a Lovable, Bolt or Cursor app to production in 2026: auth, RLS, secrets, payments, infra, privacy and handoff.</description><pubDate>Thu, 24 Sep 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>Software Agency Rates in 2026: What Senior Teams Actually Charge</title><link>https://coder.band/blog/software-agency-rates-2026/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://coder.band/blog/software-agency-rates-2026/</guid><description>Senior software teams charge about $100–$250/hour in the US, $85–$165 in Western Europe and $58–$95 in Eastern Europe in 2026. Models, drivers, red flags.</description><pubDate>Tue, 22 Sep 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate></item></channel></rss>