CTO Pulse Social Media and Updates
CTO Pulse Social Media and Updates
AI saved the non-technical engineering leader. For years, losing hands-on skills felt like decline. Now? Architecture experience plus AI equals leverage. Typing speed doesn’t win anymore. Judgment does. And the people with 20 years of it just became dangerous again.
How has the day-to-day workflow of Mitchell Hashimoto (@mitchellh) changed, thanks to AI tools? Timestamps: 00:00 Intro 07:19 HashiCorp origins 18:22 The 2010s startup scene in SF 23:11 Funding HashiCorp 25:23 The "Hashi stack" 38:28 The open-core pivot 48:08 Taking HashiCorp public 51:58 The almost-VMware acquisition 59:10 Mitchell’s take...
If only more products would measure p95 / p99 metrics and act on them, instead of looking at medians (p50) or averages (that mask outliers) p99 is almost always your power users. Fixing stuff for them has outsized impact Great example on...
Fragments: how organizations are using AI, reflections from the Utah retreat, agentic engineering patterns, inserting friction for security, training biological neural networks https://t.co/lrzsTVy1gs
Adding AI to legacy observability practices won't make debugging faster. It'll just amplify the problem.
NEW POST @techygarg sees a frustration loop when working with AI and identified five patterns to help. Here's the first: priming the LLM with knowledge about the codebase and preferred coding patterns. https://t.co/yjRPvFChd0
Built an MCP server recently? Did developers actually use it, or is it collecting dust? 😵 I'll be speaking at @theleaddev London (June 1-2) about why "connecting AI to everything" doesn't work and what actually does when building tools that...
The first recording from The Pragmatic Summit is available to watch for anyone: How AI is Reshaping the Craft of Building Software. With @thsottiaux (Head of Codex, OpenAI) and @vijayeraji (CTO of Applications, OpenAI) A very good one. Watch it here: https://t.co/apNHGykKbg...
People think AI apps are just “prompt → answer.” Real AI products use RAG. DoorDash: retrieves past support cases + KB articles, adds guardrails, and an LLM judge checks quality. LinkedIn: uses a knowledge graph from tickets to solve issues faster. Bell: employees query...
Fragments: security with OpenClaw, impressions from Pragmatic Summit, era of highly bespoke software, life-size pocket map https://t.co/IB6tYQu820
🚀 IC to Product Leader isn’t a promotion. It’s an identity shift. Happening TODAY. We’re hosting a high-signal fireside chat with Petra Wille — author of STRONG Product People — to unpack what really changes when you step into product leadership. 🗓 23 February ⏰...
They were right about software engineering being dead. Just not in the way people think. Software isn’t code. It’s architecture, tradeoffs, and understanding the customer well enough to know what not to build, and connecting technical decisions to real business outcomes. That isn't dead...
For most companies, going "product-led" is a complete disaster, and they soon revert to a feature factory. It's a predictable pattern: • Product teams cheer. • Leadership steps back. • Accountability quietly disappears. • Then… it all blows up. WHAT COMPANIES THINK THEY ARE...
ah, this is THE question: how to bring the feedback on changes back TO developers? i wrote this piece very recently on developer feedback loops in production: https://t.co/4GqKa1SCBA which includes this 3 min honeycomb demo from september: https://t.co/GNPVLI37YE
This headline today reads shocking, but will soon enough be a nothingburger: When AI generates most code and more config files as well, most outages caused will be *technically* done by AI. In reality they happen thanks to inadequate verification/monitoring/rollback...
🌐 From Route 53 to Pod : The Real Network Flow in AWS + EKS Understanding Kubernetes networking isn’t optional in production. This diagram shows the complete request journey: Route 53 → IGW → ALB → Security Groups → Private Subnets → Ingress...
▶ Reading unfamiliar code is exhausting. Now imagine that code is coming from an LLM that writes faster than you can think and doesn't take lunch breaks ◀ This 👆 perfectly captures the AI productivity paradox: code is written faster than...
Anthropic has alienated devs who care about using open source tools, portability between vendors and using LLM subscriptions in the tool of *their* choice This all seems deliberate: Anthropic gunning at enterprise, not caring much if these devs go elsewhere/use other...
How well are you surfacing your product experiences to agents? Enjoying this Bengaluru Builder Day talk from @Swiggy's CTO that's looking at making all their surfaces available to agentic users. https://t.co/o6lDaMS5wd
What people seem to be struggling with the most is not the truly novel parts of building with AI, it's the table stakes. It's not the AI part that's so hard (turns out systems have never been wholly deterministic 😉), it's...
Most AI productivity hacks you see on LinkedIn don't work. They work for one person, on their own laptop, with no one else involved. That's not your reality. Your reality is shared Google Docs with 14 contributors. Confluence pages that...
new post up: in which @martinfowler gives me the best advice ever at the worst possible time, plus... a rundown of the special guests to expect in the second edition of "Observability Engineering"! https://t.co/ZcaP1rzYib
The original plan for Fizzy was to ship the SaaS version with one sqlite database per customer. That didn't end up happening, but we built all the Rails infrastructure needed to make it possible. Mike goes through it all here:...
OpenClaw proved that one person can out-ship billion-dollar labs on agents. What does that say about where the competitive advantage actually is?
In this follow-on clip, I unpack why physical AI (and world models) is the next major leap. It introduces an entirely new kind of workforce: intelligent devices and humanoids working alongside people. The move from pilot to production won’t be...
A strong tech stack supported by change-ready leadership is essential for improved performance in today’s banking environment. Access the free report: https://t.co/0wah7wPuXN https://t.co/afm9zdd3tL
Give engineers subpar tools, what could possibly go wrong? a) competitors out-ship AWS (eg Vercel, where Claude Code is used by so many and they are on 🔥) b) frustrated engineers interview elsewhere and take offers at places where Claude Code or...
I was at a founders + CTOs event for 10-500 person startups. Founders and CTOs at these companies burn some of the most tokens and increasingly ship a bunch of code to production (when they did ~zero 6 months ago)
Basecamp has long supported OAuth, but our implementation was based on the (now ancient) pre-release spec, and it required hoops for modern clients. We've updated it to be fully compliant with OAuth 2.0 now. https://t.co/ixQWa4GmTH
