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Category: AI & Implementation
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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 how individual contributors could take charge…
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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 keeps me up at night in…
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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. GitHub didn’t win because git was…
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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 thousands of conversations about what it…
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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 networks have become remarkably good at…
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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, and tribal knowledge that eventually drowns…
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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 of software.
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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. By embracing AI-driven solutions in code…
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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 software systems and the need for…
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Cannabis: A New Strain of E-commerce Technology – SXSW 2023
Online ordering, on-demand delivery, audience targeting, AI-assistants and digital transactions are all e-commerce capabilities that we take for granted, but without this kind of tech, today’s growing legal…