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257 postsShort-form notes on AI, engineering, and the work in flight.
There's a new way to dodge accountability and it sounds like science.
"The model flagged underperformance." "The AI recommended the restructure." "The data said we had to cut the team." Same delegation as passing the call to a subordinate. New costume. Hard decisions aren't hard because the analysis is unclear....
This isn't fresh news. The trend of high-profile CTOs leaving C-suite roles to take IC seats at Anthropic has been build
What took me a while was understanding why it kept happening. The two readings on offer were "SaaS is dead" and "the comp is good." Both are partially true and neither explains the move. SaaS isn't dead, most of these companies aren't in trouble,...
Run your AI agent in a DM and one person learns from it. Run it in a public channel and the whole team does.
That's the design choice that compounded for us at BRIDGE IN. Ours is called aiBerto. He has no inbox. Every PR, every Sentry triage, every "I'm stuck on this CI failure" happens in a Slack channel anyone can read. Teammates watch him fail, notice...
Anthropic just put their entire Claude curriculum online. Free. With certificates.
17 courses across five tracks: AI fluency, product training, developer deep-dives, cloud and enterprise, foundational knowledge. No Anthropic account required. Just an email. If you've been waiting to get into AI, this is the lowest-friction entry...
Quietly mirrored every essay I've written to Substack over the last few months. The site is still the canonical home. Th
Nine pieces up so far. All about what AI is actually doing to engineering work, written from inside the shift. If email is the surface you prefer: [joaofogoncalves.substack.com](https://joaofogoncalves.substack.com/)
AI is everywhere. Agents inside products are still rare.
Yesterday's AI Innovation Day at AIhub Lisbon flipped that ratio. Five flash demos, all forced through the same filter: problem → solution → impact. I sat on the jury and the demos that stood out weren't the ones with the slickest UI or the biggest...
AI made software cheap to ship. The hard part is now figuring out what to ship.
That gap is also the reason we walked into Agents Day with no team, no plan, no idea what we were building. We spent the first hour on the question. Picked Cloudflare's challenge as the constraint, gave an agent access to our GitHub accounts, and...
He's right. The interesting question is who lands on which side of that line.
Two engineers feed Claude the same prompt. The output looks plausible. The tests pass. One ships it. The other notices in thirty seconds that the model quietly removed a retry-on-rate-limit pattern the test suite didn't cover, says no, regenerates....
Two things compound in AI coding tools that don't get talked about together.
The first is sycophancy. Half of the major coding assistants will agree with a wrong assumption rather than push back. It's not a bug. It's a training artifact. Models got rewarded for pleasant interactions, so they produce pleasant interactions....
Two years ago I wrote about the perils of over-engineering. Heavy abstractions, premature microservices, solving problem
Reading it back, every bullet still fires. You just swap the vocabulary. Heavy abstractions used to mean a factory pattern wrapped around a single function. Now it's an agent with five tools and a system prompt for a script that wanted to be 30...
Everyone framing AI adoption as a generational story has the variable wrong.
It isn't age. It isn't years on the CV. It's identity weight. How much of your self is attached to your last public call. You can spot the operators who've un-taxed themselves by behavior. They run their own experiments instead of delegating prompts...
At Cloud Next Pichai showed this chart. 25% to 75% of new code at Google written by AI in 18 months.
I pulled the same number for our codebase at BRIDGE IN over the same window. Different shape entirely. Five-month-old greenfield repo. The first two months: 0% AI, because there was nothing to assist with yet. Then AI authorship climbed: 19% in...
Most AI trainings try to meet non-technical people where they are. That radically limits what they can get out of the to
The pattern is familiar. Show the demo. Give them a prompt template. Have them paste it into ChatGPT and rewrite an email. Everyone leaves feeling productive. The problem is that the skills that make AI actually work are old skills: structured...
"AI will create more jobs" is technically correct and completely hollow.
Jevons is real. Cheaper software does mean more software. More software does mean more work. Nadella was right about the aggregates. Software-engineering postings up 30% YTD. AI wage premium doubled in a single year. The pie is growing. But "the...
Fifteen years in infrastructure teaches you what breaks.
The 2am debugging sessions. Teams drowning in tooling that was supposed to help and somehow added more complexity than it solved. Same pattern, different companies. BRIDGEPORT started with one specific moment: a config change that touched multiple...
Two app-platform breaches in 48 hours.
Vercel: internal DB, employee accounts, GitHub and NPM tokens reportedly for sale on BreachForums. Vercel owns Next.js. 6M weekly downloads. One compromised package ships to every app that updates. Lovable: any free account can read other users'...
Matt's right, and the historical echo is louder than it reads.
Same thing played out in the 80s and 90s with computers. The adequate worker who kept doing the job the old way wasn't fired in year one. Or year three. They got absorbed, moved sideways, buffered by colleagues picking up the slack. Then one day the...
Most teams calling themselves AI-first are AI-assisted.
Same sprint cycles, same manual reviews, same weekly status call, now with Co-Pilot. Ten or twenty percent efficiency gain. Nothing structurally changes. AI-first means you redesigned the loop from the ground up, from 1st principles. The difference...
Two months ago I wrote about an AI pipeline BRIDGE IN that could deliver a feature end-to-end. Spec in, PR out, one hour
This Tuesday my laptop was closed. Sentry alert at 10:17. A skill created the issue, linked it to a week-old Slack thread, queued it. By 11:02 CI was green. Thumbs-up from my phone. Merge. The pipeline didn't go away. It became one organ of...
They're at it again.
Just one day after Opus 4.7, now a full design, presentations, chart creation and much more tool. Describe what you want, and Claude builds the first version. Refine through conversation, inline comments, direct edits, or custom sliders. Export to...
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