João Gonçalves
Founding Engineer at BRIDGE IN. Previously Director of Engineering at Altium/Valispace. Building things with AI, not just talking about it.
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A lot of people agreed. Some pushed back. Both reactions pointed at the same thing: there's something genuinely confusing about how organizations are handling AI adoption right now, and "just use it more" isn't landing as an answer. So I did some...
I get it. "Have you asked AI?" is a strange thing to hear after presenting your work. It signals distrust. It undercuts expertise. It's annoying. It's also possibly a CEO who's been getting slow, polished, non-answers for months and found something...
PM openings at a three-year high. Engineering up 78% from the low. AI roles up over 300%. Recruiter demand surging back toward 2022 peaks, which is the leading indicator nobody pays attention to. Companies don't staff up recruiting to slow down. And...
It feeds models false premises disguised in jargon and measures how often they push back. Claude Sonnet 4.6: ~90% pushback. The rest: roughly a coin flip. So statistically, there's a 50% chance your AI copilot is just a very fast yes-man with a good...
Take a process that needs people. Automate it. Sell the automation. That was SaaS. AI just made the automation part nearly free. Which means the entire equation flipped. The companies that will do well aren't building another SaaS product. They're...
AI coding agents capabilities have improved dramatically and the workflows have elevated from vibe coding to agentic programming. I've also built something that I would never have tried in oast by lack of knowledge and time to learn it. It's a CLI...