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  • Mar 03

    Block Just Cut 3,500 Jobs. You’re Reading It Wrong.

    Jack Dorsey announced this week that Block is cutting roughly 3,500 people — about 40% of its workforce. The stock has been…

    AI & Implementation, Engineering Leadership · 5 min
  • Feb 24

    Are You Managing Your Manager? (The Agentic Update)

    In 2015, I stood in front of a room full of engineers at Code Driven NYC and laid out a formula for…

    AI & Implementation, Engineering Leadership · 9 min
  • Feb 18

    Can AI Solve the Four Burner Problem?

    In my last post, Awe in an AI World, I wrote about the reclaimed time that AI is creating and the question that…

    AI & Implementation, Building in Public, Engineering Leadership · 8 min
  • Feb 11

    The Next Platform Giant Is Hiding in Plain Sight

    Every major era of software development has produced a defining platform company. The one that quietly became the infrastructure everyone depends on.…

    AI & Implementation, Engineering Leadership · 6 min
  • Feb 04

    Awe in an AI World

    I’ve spent most of my life implementing systems at scale, watching engineering teams transform how they work (pre- and post-AI), and having…

    AI & Implementation, Building in Public, Engineering Leadership · 7 min
  • Jan 29

    Why Neuro-Symbolic AI Matters Today

    For the past decade, we’ve watched deep learning transform everything from how we search the web to how we write code. Neural…

    AI & Implementation, Engineering Leadership · 5 min
  • Jan 22

    Putting AI to Work in Your Engineering Workflow Today

    A few years ago, I wrote about the creeping danger of debt. Debt being the slow accumulation of manual processes, fragile deployments,…

    AI & Implementation, Engineering Leadership · 3 min
  • Jan 14

    The Pre-AI to Post-AI Company Transition

    Leaders must rethink beyond adding ML models. Transition to AI-native architectures and embrace probabilistic systems for robust outcomes in this new era…

    AI & Implementation, Engineering Leadership · 3 min
  • Sep 13

    The Augmented Tech Leader: How AI Can Empower Your Engineering Team

    AI tools can fundamentally transform the way engineering managers lead teams by not only speed and convenience but deeper insights and impact.…

    AI & Implementation · 2 min
  • Jan 05

    AI and Machine Learning: Transforming Observability

    As the shift from Observability 1.0 to 2.0 unfolds, several key factors are driving this transformation, such as the increasing complexity of…

    AI & Implementation · 3 min
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