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Engineering managers are writing more code again. What does that actually mean for the role, and is it something to celebrate or worry about? Several posts and articles published…
Computer use means an agent that looks at the screen, moves the mouse and types, so it can work with software that has no API: legacy portals, desktop apps, internal tools. It's…
In August, Stripe announced it had agreed to acquire OpenRouter — reportedly for more than $7 billion, per Bloomberg . OpenRouter helps businesses route and optimize token usage…
- Lead with Context·1 min
In recent weeks, I completed Northwestern University’s Organizational Leadership Specialization on Coursera. While the courses span different topics- storytelling, social…
Ron Wallace started as a UPS driver in rural Idaho in 1966 and retired 36 years later as President of UPS International, running operations in 200+ countries. His book,…
As I wrote in Tokens as Currency , token usage is becoming a real operating constraint. AI coding agents burn tokens on things they don't need to see in full - verbose logs,…
- Spec-Driven Development·2 min
I recently read Spec-Driven Development by Haim Michale, and it resonated with some day-to-day thoughts about SDD. The problem SDD aims to solve isn't new Missing, incomplete, and…
- RAG Made Simple·1 min
📚 Just finished " RAG Made Simple: The Complete Visual Guide to Retrieval-Augmented Generation " by Nir Diamant, and it happened to be one of those rare cases where the book…
- Kill Skill·2 min
Three recent incidents that should make all of us pause: → A hallucinated npx command spread through a single LLM-generated skill file to 237 repositories. Real agents executed…
- Make PRs Logical Again·1 min
The day-to-day work of software engineers is shifting - less time is spent on implementation, and more on specifying, planning, and reviewing. As AI coding tools improve, the…
Fun fact about me - I played Rugby Sevens for years, including on a national team. It taught me more about engineering leadership than I expected. Small teams, huge space, high…
The Quarterback Paradox - while I'm not sure I agree that it is a paradox - i.e., recruiting a critical position to an organization is hard even if you have a lot of data, I love…
With the growing adoption of AI and recent moves like Anthropic’s Cowork plugin marketplace , there’s a popular narrative that traditional SaaS is dead . The implication is that…
Last update: February 1st, 2026 Coding agents are no longer a novelty - they’re everywhere. Over the past year, we’ve seen massive adoption across startups and enterprises,…
A sense of humor is one of the most underestimated leadership skills Following the recommendation in “The Great CEO Within” I listened to “ The One Minute Manager ”. In one of the…
- Tokens as Currency·1 min
Half-baked thought: Tokens will become currency. Right now, the direction is obvious - more money buys more tokens. But what if, in the near future, tokens themselves become a…
I finished listening to “ The Great CEO Within ” by Matt Mochary and Alex MacCaw. A few thoughts: 1️⃣ A tactical cheat sheet I view the book as a tactical cheat sheet: short,…
I started this week with deeplearning.ai’s course on semantic caching , created in collaboration with Redis. That sent me down a rabbit hole, exploring different LLM caching…
🚀 AI is moving deeper into digital health - over the past week, both OpenAI and Anthropic have introduced major features aimed at bringing powerful AI capabilities into…
AWS re:Invent 2025 took place this week, and as always, dozens of announcements were unveiled . At the macro level, announcing Amazon EC2 Trn3 UltraServers for faster, lower-cost…
Measuring Engineering Productivity - Measuring engineering productivity is a topic that has been discussed as long as the field of engineering has existed. This post acknowledges…
I recently came across two blog posts that made me think, especially in light of a sobering statistic I've seen floating around: a recent MIT study reports that 95% of…
Over the past few months, I have been constantly reading conversations about how Generative AI will reshape software engineering. On LinkedIn, Twitter, or in closed professional…
Have you noticed how half the posts on LinkedIn these days feel like they were written by an LLM - too many words for too little substance ? Or how product roadmaps suddenly…
My daughter just finished first grade and is about to turn seven. One day, she noticed me playing a math puzzle on a news site and asked if she could join. I told her that when an…