Paul Kovalenko

Paul Kovalenko

Serial entrepreneur in tech & LTC

About

I build technology that skilled nursing and long-term care providers can actually run on. Two decades in, I'm a serial entrepreneur and co-founder of four companies serving that niche: Approved Admissions (Co-founder, CPO), Langate (Co-founder, CTO), Carebiller (Co-founder), and RCM Kit (Co-founder, CTO). My work starts inside the facility, not above it: eligibility verification, Medicaid pending, admissions, revenue cycle. The operational detail most technologists never see. I take what's best in modern engineering, AI, architecture, security, and convert it into a product that survives contact with a real admissions coordinator and a real billing office. Fifteen-plus years as a CTO. One question at the center of all of it: will this actually work?

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How do you stop AI coding agents from silently duplicating code?

Something I keep running into with vibe coding: the agent loses context mid-task and rebuilds a helper that already exists, under a new name, a couple of folders away.

Everything compiles and tests pass. But now half the app uses version A and half uses version B, and the two slowly drift apart. Each version passes review on its own, so nothing looks broken.

The symptoms can be small, like inconsistent date formatting across pages. They can also be serious. If only one copy got the auth check or input validation, part of your app is protected and part isn t, with no visible sign.

One cheap guardrail I ve seen: at the end of each session, ask the agent to list every new function it created, then check for near-duplicates before release.

What do you still do manually, even though AI could do it?

AI can draft a reply, build a small app, or run a routine task. But being able to automate something does not always mean you want to hand it over.

Sometimes doing it yourself is how you notice a problem or understand what someone actually needs.

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