ShakaCode AI Strategy

Published at ai.shakacode.com

How ShakaCode approaches AI-assisted development: our governance model, industry research, and open-source tooling.

Articles

• The Executive Chef Model — How we govern AI-assisted development. Every engineer is an executive chef: use whatever AI tools you want, you own what you ship.
• How 10 Companies Are Governing AI-Assisted Development in 2026 — A survey of AI policies across Shopify, Meta, GitLab, Anthropic, Google/DORA, Amazon, and others.

Related

Our AI development toolkit is a separate repo: shakacode/claude-code-commands-skills-agents. It includes the slash commands, agents, templates, and GitHub Actions that implement the philosophy described here.

Contributing

This is an open-source repo. If you disagree with something, think we're missing something, or want to share how your team handles AI governance — open a PR or start a discussion.

We're especially interested in:

• How other teams are implementing governance frameworks
• Research we should be citing
• Practical tooling and workflow improvements
• Corrections or clarifications

Development

This site is built with Astro and deployed to Cloudflare Pages.

npm install
npm run dev      # Local dev server at localhost:4321
npm run build    # Build to ./dist
npm run preview  # Preview production build

Deployment

Merging to main triggers an automatic build and deploy to Cloudflare Pages. The site publishes to ai.shakacode.com.

Connecting this repo to Cloudflare Pages

1. Go to Cloudflare Dashboard → Workers & Pages → Create → Pages → Connect to Git
2. Select the shakacode/ai-strategy repository and authorize access
3. Configure the build settings:
   • Project name: ai-strategy
   • Production branch: main
   • Framework preset: Astro
   • Build command: npm run build
   • Build output directory: dist
4. Under Environment variables, add: NODE_VERSION = 22
5. Click Save and Deploy — Cloudflare will build and publish the site
6. To use a custom domain (ai.shakacode.com): go to Custom domains in the Pages project settings, add ai.shakacode.com, and create the CNAME record it provides in your DNS

About ShakaCode

ShakaCode is a consultancy specializing in AI-augmented Ruby on Rails and React development. We're the company behind React on Rails and the ShakaCode open-source ecosystem.

If your team is navigating AI-assisted development and could use experienced partners, reach out.