I've been digging into agents for internal tooling and processes. Looking for how to scale without drowning in manual work. Here's what I found

When candidates put AI on their resume, the key thing I try to find out is whether they used evals. How did you measure making improvements?

When candidates put AI on their resume, the key thing I try to find out is whether they used evals. How did you measure making improvements?

Forget the bullshit tips and tricks, just talk to it.

Forget the bullshit tips and tricks, just talk to it.

Read more papers. You can learn the latest and greatest in your field in one chill afternoon.

Read more papers. You can learn the latest and greatest in your field in one chill afternoon.

We talk a lot about outcomes over outputs and how engineers are supposed to get us over the water, not blindly build a bridge because someone asked for a bridge. But how do you do that in practice?

We talk a lot about outcomes over outputs and how engineers are supposed to get us over the water, not blindly build a bridge because someone asked for a bridge. But how do you do that in practice?

Frustration is your greatest engineering asset. What do you do the 5th time someone asks for the same damn thing yet again?

Frustration is your greatest engineering asset. What do you do the 5th time someone asks for the same damn thing yet again?

Maybe AI will replace engineers, I don't know. Self-driving cars were just around the corner for 50 years. Until then we've got shit to do and engineers to hire.

Maybe AI will replace engineers, I don't know. Self-driving cars were just around the corner for 50 years. Until then we've got shit to do and engineers to hire.

The best engineers I know never talk about their AI setup. The worst engineers I know only talk about their AI setup.

The best engineers I know never talk about their AI setup. The worst engineers I know only talk about their AI setup.

Daniel from JS-Craft talks with Swizec Teller about priorities, writing, startup engineering, and Scaling Fast.

How you approach software engineering makes it harder or easier to handle interruptions and other chaos. Writing a behavioral interview made me realize this is a learnable skill!

How you approach software engineering makes it harder or easier to handle interruptions and other chaos. Writing a behavioral interview made me realize this is a learnable skill!

Your resume titles don't matter. Just tell me what did you do.

Your resume titles don't matter. Just tell me what did you do.

You might enjoy this podcast episode. Sylvain and I talked about owning production in a world where AI writes the code.

You might enjoy this podcast episode. Sylvain and I talked about owning production in a world where AI writes the code.

AI will automate every job except the ones I'm deeply familiar with

AI will automate every job except the ones I'm deeply familiar with

Humans of Reliability talks with Swizec Teller about owning production in the AI era.

You want users and revenue to grow exponentially. Bugs per day to grow linearly. Support work to grow logarithmically. Your goal is to make this happen.

You want users and revenue to grow exponentially. Bugs per day to grow linearly. Support work to grow logarithmically. Your goal is to make this happen.

How fast you do code review is how fast you do everything. Your PR queue is the leading indicator of team velocity. Stacked PRs can help.