iiinova — where your digital self keeps evolving

lpeate.bsky.social @lpeate.bsky.social · 20/05/2026

Oof, yes, that’s so frustrating

lpeate.bsky.social @lpeate.bsky.social · 15/05/2026

Maia coming back full circle — “accessibility isn’t the t shirt we forgot to put in, it’s the detergent — it’s essential to making sure we get the outcomes we need.”

Maia in front of an image of a washing machine with “Accessibility detergent”

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lpeate.bsky.social @lpeate.bsky.social · 15/05/2026

Super interesting story from Tesco back in 2001 when they decided to roll out a second, accessible version of their website. They abandoned the “main” website in 2003 because it was dramatically preferred by users — and brought in 13 M pounds of revenue

Maia in front of a stylized image of the Tesco website with the number 13 million pounds

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lpeate.bsky.social @lpeate.bsky.social · 15/05/2026

There’s an annual scan of 1 million websites and the latest one from 2025 found that 96% of homepages were inaccessible. Plus, the number of bugs on those pages went up 10% — and the hypothesis was that it’s related to AI.

Maia in front of a slide showing that 96% of homepages are inaccessible and there was a 10% increase in bugs detected.

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lpeate.bsky.social @lpeate.bsky.social · 15/05/2026

Some stats: * 1 in 6 New Zealanders have a disability * 46% of people 60+ have a disability

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lpeate.bsky.social @lpeate.bsky.social · 15/05/2026

@maiamiller.bsky.social now on stage pointing out that people now recognize that accessibility matters, but they don’t know how to fit it in — so it’s like a t shirt that you forgot to put in the laundry. #nztechrally

Maia in front of a slide with an “Accessibity” t shirt sitting outside a washing machine

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lpeate.bsky.social @lpeate.bsky.social · 15/05/2026

Love this mapping from how human would respond to an incident to what tools AI would need to do it too

Dipin in front of a slide about “what would a perfect on-call engineer do?” — with a mapping from human actions to AI tools

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lpeate.bsky.social @lpeate.bsky.social · 15/05/2026

Dipin Thomas doing a fantastic job explaining Deep Agent and AI harnesses — an AI harness is something that provides tools and guardrails for AI, and Dipin has done a great job breaking down each component of a harness, from memory to sub-agents to skills and more. #NZTechRally

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lpeate.bsky.social @lpeate.bsky.social · 15/05/2026

From the Q&A: “how will juniors learn to read code if they’re not writing code?” Lora — “actually, you get better at reading code by reading code” (and there’s evidence that we’ve been teaching code wrong all along anyway).

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lpeate.bsky.social @lpeate.bsky.social · 15/05/2026

And then get this for how to help junior engineers grow in this new world: * pair with them while they’re using AI * help them practice communicating why they made choices and what the impact was * curated knowledge exchange — have juniors identify key skills to learn and ask someone to teach them

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lpeate.bsky.social @lpeate.bsky.social · 15/05/2026

Plus this point from Lora — that the skills that matter most today are the ones that used to come last in a traditional career.

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lpeate.bsky.social @lpeate.bsky.social · 15/05/2026

Aw, shucks. Thanks for sharing (and sorry for the slow response!! I’m on BlueSky usually just at conferences and I’m back at a conference today so am catching up.)

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lpeate.bsky.social @lpeate.bsky.social · 15/05/2026

Kia ora! I’m posting today from #nztechrally — currently enjoying Lora Vordarova’s talk about how the way people learn engineering needs to change with AI. She shared a model tor how to break it down — into foundational skills, AI skills, and “higher-level” skills. (See photo).

Lora in front of a slide about the new engineering toolkit — foundational skills, AI skills, higher-level skills.

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lpeate.bsky.social @lpeate.bsky.social · 17/03/2026

“AI may generate code, but people generate value. We need to focus on continuous improvement (just get better than yesterday), and we need to support each other through this.” — great closing comments from Adam!

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lpeate.bsky.social @lpeate.bsky.social · 17/03/2026

And super interesting hear the changes in Mable’s ways of working — shorter rituals, more touch points, recycling the time you get back from writing code to spend more time thinking. From Olga — “more thinky thinky, less type-y type-y.”

Slide showing the changes to Mable’s ways of working now with AI

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lpeate.bsky.social @lpeate.bsky.social · 17/03/2026

Focus on quality and you get speed; focus on speed and you lose quality. — from Adam

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lpeate.bsky.social @lpeate.bsky.social · 17/03/2026

Super interesting case study from Adam / Mable — rolling out AI tools did mean they shopped more lines of code, but at a cost of more complexity. And on their value delivered metric — epics — AI gave a marginal bump compared to changes they made with automated testing and continuous delivery.

Chart showing the size of Mable’s codebase over time, as they rolled out different initiatives

Chart showing the change in code complexity — it whet up with AI

Chart showing the number of epics released alongside different changes they made

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lpeate.bsky.social @lpeate.bsky.social · 17/03/2026

Great point from Adam about how we’re missed the point with these AI productivity measures — actually, it’s about whether we’re sustainably shipping value faster. We need to look beyond coding to all the things around it that get an idea into production

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lpeate.bsky.social @lpeate.bsky.social · 17/03/2026

Stoked for this next talk, the closing keynote at #Programmable2026 — Adam Boas from Mable chatting about being a dev in a world with AI

Adam Boas in front of a slide saying “being a dev in a world with AI”

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lpeate.bsky.social @lpeate.bsky.social · 17/03/2026

Really nodding my head at this part of Matt de Bono’s talk — agents are not people. Don’t use she/he for them, don’t anthropomorphize them. They’re not making decisions, and we shouldn’t trust them like they do #Programmable2026

Matt in front of a slide saying “brief soapbox tangent” saying that “Agents are not people!”

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lpeate.bsky.social @lpeate.bsky.social · 17/03/2026

Really enjoying Diane L’s talk about “herding cats at scale” (AI guardrails) at #Programmable2026 — great summary of the about the pros and cons of different AI guardrails

Image shows a slide with the pros and cons of 4 different AI guardrails: rules, model, LLM, and a human in the loop

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Andy Kelk @andykelk.net · 16/03/2026

Adoption of AI does not equal impact. Only 14% of companies report seeing revenue gains. Mara Cajar-Robinson at #Programmable2026

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lpeate.bsky.social @lpeate.bsky.social · 17/03/2026

I’m here at #Programmable2026 today — which means I’m here and skeeting today! Come say hi if you’re around

Lauren wearing a purple shirt that says “Multitudes” and standing in front of a sign for Programmable

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lpeate.bsky.social @lpeate.bsky.social · 17/03/2026

Thank you for basically live-skeeting my talk!!

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Andy Kelk @andykelk.net · 17/03/2026

Enforcing standards is a key control to prevent AI slop in your coding. @lpeate.bsky.social at #Programmable2026

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Andy Kelk @andykelk.net · 17/03/2026

Delivery pressures directly conflict with AI learning and adoption. @lpeate.bsky.social at #Programmable2026

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Andy Kelk @andykelk.net · 17/03/2026

Engineers do more work when using AI. But... Also more work outside of hours @lpeate.bsky.social at #Programmable2026

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lpeate.bsky.social @lpeate.bsky.social · 17/03/2026

With AI, our research shows that engineers are worried about issues ranging from maintainability to the environmental impact and number of jobs for juniors. Also, hello from #Programmable2026 !

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lpeate.bsky.social @lpeate.bsky.social · 04/09/2025

Hello from San Jose! I’m here to speak at DataWeek (going on stage in an hour!). Come find me if you’re around today or tomorrow — I’m wearing a shirt with a “happy code ship” (and giving out stickers).

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lpeate.bsky.social @lpeate.bsky.social · 26/08/2025

Human reviewers are more important than ever with LLMs writing and reviewing code. But alongside that, the role of humans is shifting – and that’s why it’s so important to understand the patterns in code reviews. Are they different when we’re using more LLMs? See our latest feature for more!

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lpeate.bsky.social @lpeate.bsky.social · 15/07/2025

This is a testament to transparency – making sure everyone can access our features means we get more feedback and can make more product improvements. It's also testament to our team for listening and actioning the improvement ideas – I love our #10xTeam!

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lpeate.bsky.social @lpeate.bsky.social · 20/06/2025

Ha, I'm similar – still building the habit to jump in here more often!!

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lpeate.bsky.social @lpeate.bsky.social · 20/06/2025

Thank *you* for all your great insights!! Excited to jam more on all this stuff. 😊

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lpeate.bsky.social @lpeate.bsky.social · 20/06/2025

I don't look happy here 🤣 but I had a great time co-presenting with @vivekkatial.bsky.social at @yowconf.bsky.social about how we built our first LLM feature – to measure the quality of feedback on code reviews.

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lpeate.bsky.social @lpeate.bsky.social · 20/06/2025

I really appreciated the discussion about the right reasons for bringing on code debt – and the cleanup you might have to do after!

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lpeate.bsky.social @lpeate.bsky.social · 17/06/2025

“As an engineering leader, we should be expected to sharpen our sword as much as our devs.” Adel Smee shared great insights for supporting your Eng leaders to learn and grow — including the Society of Cool Kids, a fortnightly meetup where their leaders go to share challenges & learnings #YOWTLS25

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DamianM @damianm.com · 17/06/2025

“Like any good cult leader, I needed a manifesto” 😂😂 Adel Smee has us all laughing. #yowtls

A woman speaking at a conference. The slide is titled “agile manifesto-ish”

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lpeate.bsky.social @lpeate.bsky.social · 17/06/2025

Annie spoke about the 5 dualities of engineering with AI: friction fades, it opens up higher-level thinking, self-confidence grows, productivity accelerates, and creativity becomes more accessible. I won’t give away the details though — check out Annie’s talk in Sydney or Melbourne later this week!

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lpeate.bsky.social @lpeate.bsky.social · 17/06/2025

And we’re off with a bang! @yowconf.bsky.social Tech Leaders Brisbane kicks off with an amazing keynote from @codefrenzy.bsky.social — what are software engineers if they’re not writing code? And what do leaders need to do to guide teams through this change?

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lpeate.bsky.social @lpeate.bsky.social · 11/06/2025

Special shout-outs to @vivekkatial.bsky.social for making sure we built this in an academically rigorous but speedy way, to Kevin for all the ML engineering to bring it to life, and to Ginny for the clarity of communication around this. Love our #10xTeam!

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lpeate.bsky.social @lpeate.bsky.social · 11/06/2025

It is live!!! After years in the making, we now give you insights into feedback quality in @multitudes.co – showing specific feedback, rubber-stamping, and heated comments. As with everything we do, these insights are a question, not the answer, and this is backed by deep research (more below).

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lpeate.bsky.social @lpeate.bsky.social · 30/04/2025

Great framework from Alex Zaccaria of LinkTree about giving your team clarity when sharing ideas: —thought: my idea, but you can make a different decision —recommendation: I would like to do it this way; it’s your decision but tell me what you decide —mandate: this is how we’ll do it #sunrise25

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lpeate.bsky.social @lpeate.bsky.social · 30/04/2025

Loved your talk, @sachajudd.com! Especially this —> “The metaphor of surfing implies movement; the metaphor of platforms implies that we’re stationery.” Great call to action to make the internet more joyful again by creating something just for yourself.

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lpeate.bsky.social @lpeate.bsky.social · 24/04/2025

The best customers are ones that make your product better. Huge thanks to the @honeycomb.io team for co-designing new PagerDuty insights with us! Special shout-outs to @ferd.ca and @another-engineer.bsky.social in particular. 🙏

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lpeate.bsky.social @lpeate.bsky.social · 25/03/2025

Vindhya's talk answered so many of my questions as a product leader. I love her one-team approach and practical tips for making sure tech debt is addressed – while still delivering customer-facing features. More below!

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lpeate.bsky.social @lpeate.bsky.social · 14/03/2025

These new docs 100% nail our value of deliver delight. 💅

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lpeate.bsky.social @lpeate.bsky.social · 12/03/2025

Great question! Excited for this

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lpeate.bsky.social @lpeate.bsky.social · 10/03/2025

After we launched our Focus Time insights for Google Calendar, we had a swatch of Outlook users telling us they wanted the same insights – so we've now delivered!

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lpeate.bsky.social @lpeate.bsky.social · 26/02/2025

Thanks, Nathen!! We appreciate you beating the drums about why continuous improvement is the way to go – this is one of many examples of why!!!

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