Engineering Leadership
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Why Neuro-Symbolic AI Matters Today
Neural networks learn patterns. They do not reason, and they produce confident nonsense when pressed. Neuro-symbolic AI pairs that learning with explicit logic and rules. Sometimes the right answer is a smaller neural component that works with knowledge you can inspect.
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Putting AI to Work in Your Engineering Workflow Today
What you can do this week to cut busywork: AI for test generation, first-pass code review, and the messy automation that fixed rules could not handle. Pick one painful process, automate it, and measure it. Fix the process first, because AI will scale your dysfunction.
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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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Efficiency matters
Before you add capacity, look at what you do and how you do it. Resources added to an inefficient process make it worse.
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Time Minimalism
One Friday, email and Slack took seven and a half hours of my focus before my real job began. Here is how I set boundaries on notifications and get those hours back.
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Arbitrary Constraints Power Creative Problem Solving
A deadline six months away is easy to put off. A deadline in five days is something you can feel. I run my team in one-week sprints because a tight constraint drives the work.
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Are You Managing Your Manager?
Plenty of books teach managers to manage. This is for the engineer: four steps to draw great management out of your manager. Dreams, alignment, goals, and feedback. From my talk at Code Driven NYC.
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This is life… in Trello
I used to run my life on notecards, sticky notes, and checklists. Now it runs on one board with five bins: inbox, later, this week, today, and done.
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Past performance not indicative of future results
Investment firms print that warning for a reason. Hiring is an investment too, and a résumé is past performance. Weigh the cost of a miss against the upside of a person who wants to grow.
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Sharpen Your Focus
Developers hold too much in short-term memory, and notifications make it worse. Do Not Disturb should be called Do Not Distract. Turn it on and choose when to switch context.
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