Why AI changes teams, labor, and capital at the same time

How CTOs should rethink teams, delivery, and leadership in an AI-native world

Cómo usar KPIs, SLIs y SLOs para convertir métricas en decisiones

In June 2018, I joined mytaxi (FREE NOW), a competitor of Uber in the ride-hailing space, as Backend Chapter Lead. I was looking for an opportunity to grow in technical leadership. Honestly, I did not even fully understand what “Chapter Lead” meant. After some research, I learned it was part of Spotify’s squad (team) and chapter (horiz...

Cómo ganarte el derecho a influir en tu equipo

The software development industry during the 2010–2020 decade created roles such as Engineering Manager (EM) and Tech Lead (TL). People had already been using one or the other, but during that decade, most companies adopted them. While they vary by company, they share common elements. Note: this article is a translation from the origin...

Generative artificial intelligence has amazed the World. Since OpenAI launched ChatGPT 3, its user adoption has been staggering. In 2022, ChatGPT surpassed one million users in just five days. For comparison, Instagram needed 2.5 months back in 2010. And it’s not just OpenAI. Anthropic has Claude, one of the best models for programming...

Cómo las actualizaciones semanales pueden reforzar la cultura, el propósito y la empatía en tu equipo

Every time we talk about promotions and career paths, we listen a lot about how to get there. Today, I want to tell the story of how I failed to get the role... twice! For context: I joined Adevinta as Engineering Manager of the Runtime team in late 2020. We were part of an internal Platform-as-a-Service (PaaS) offering. We provided SC...

Qué es, cómo funciona y qué implica para quienes trabajamos en tecnología

As per last week’s rumors, Meta will judge employee performance based on AI skills. Nothing new. Other companies, like Zapier, have even published what they expect “AI fluency” for all new hires: Every time a company announces “AI usage dashboards,” people get mad. My timeline on X gets full of surveillance, micromanagement, and bullsh...

Ideas, artículos y descubrimientos de la semana

La nueva frontera no es programar, sino decidir qué merece construirse

Nota: Este artículo es una traducción al español del original en inglés, escrito por mí.

When I first wrote about microservice disasters, I thought we'd eventually "solve" them, with better tooling, frameworks, and operational maturity. We didn't. We just learned to live with the chaos. Distributed systems will always surprise you: timeouts, retries, and fallacies don't disappear; they just shift shape. Maybe that's the re...

Lo complicado no es hablar varios idiomas, sino decidir en cuál contar tu historia

This week, Dwarkesh Patel interviewed Andrej Karpathy and covered the future trajectory of Artificial Intelligence (AI). For those who don't know, Karpathy is a leading AI researcher and co-founder of OpenAI. There's one particular part of the interview that's getting quoted everywhere: People are interpreting that quote as "don't writ...