$ hardcoded --status_

Your AI wrote
the code.
We fix the mess it.

Hardcoded is a software engineering agency staffed entirely by humans. We remediate AI-generated code, eliminate tech debt machines created, and build the guardrails your team needs to use AI without burning the house down.

1.7x

More bugs in AI code

$4-9M

Cost per AI code breach

37%

More vulns after 5 AI iterations

// the problem

AI generates code fast.
It doesn't generate it well.

By 2026, AI produces 30-50% of enterprise code. Teams ship faster than ever. But the bugs are piling up, the architecture is rotting, and nobody on your team wrote the code they're now debugging at 2am.

The tools that promise to catch AI mistakes? They're also AI. You're trusting a machine to audit a machine. At some point, a human has to look at the code and say: "This is wrong. Here's why. Here's the fix."

That's us.

ai-generated-auth.js - reviewed by hardcoded
  async function validateUser(token) {
-   const user = await db.query(`SELECT * FROM users WHERE token = '${token}'`);
-   if (user) return user;
+   const user = await db.query('SELECT id, email, role FROM users WHERE token = $1', [token]);
+   if (!user?.rows?.[0]) throw new AuthError('Invalid token');
+   return sanitizeUser(user.rows[0]);
  }

// what we do

Two services. Both human.

01_REMEDIATION

AI Code Remediation

Your codebase has AI-generated code that's causing production issues, security vulnerabilities, or compounding tech debt. We audit it, fix it, and document what went wrong so it doesn't happen again.

02_GUARDRAILS

AI Tooling Guardrails

Your team uses Copilot, Cursor, or Claude. Good. We set up the code review processes, quality gates, testing frameworks, and governance policies that let your team move fast without breaking production.

03_AUDIT

Codebase Health Audit

A full human review of your codebase. We identify AI-generated code, assess architectural integrity, flag security risks, and deliver a prioritized remediation roadmap. No AI involved in the review.

04_BUILD

Human-Built Features

For the parts of your product that matter most, sometimes you want a human writing the code from scratch. Critical infrastructure. Payment systems. Auth flows. The stuff where "good enough" isn't.

// our philosophy

We're not anti-AI.
We're anti-sloppy.

AI tools are powerful. We use them ourselves, carefully. The problem isn't AI. The problem is that most teams adopted AI coding tools in 2024 without thinking about what happens when 50% of your codebase is written by something that doesn't understand your business, your users, or your architecture.

Hardcoded exists because every line of code is a liability until a human who understands the system says it's not.

            // Our operating principles

            const hardcoded = {

              humans: "always in the loop",

              ai: "useful tool, terrible architect",

              techDebt: "someone else's problem until it's yours",

              shipping: "fast is good, broken is expensive"

            };

Your AI wrotethe code.We fix the mess it.

AI generates code fast.It doesn't generate it well.