Almost nobody trains you to be an engineering manager. You were good at writing code, so you got handed more people and more meetings, and one day the job was leading a team instead of shipping fea…

At VinSolutions, I was famous for one thing that had nothing to do with writing code. Every single time we shipped a release, I posted about it. On social media, to customers, inside the company, a…

Employee retention is a silent killer for dev teams and AI is making it worse.

The job we spent twenty years hiring for is the one AI is best at.

I have hired somewhere north of a thousand software engineers. At VinSolutions, at Stackify, and now at Full Scale, where we build dedicated development teams for companies across the US.

A few weeks ago I wrote about my friend who discovered Claude Code and disappeared for two months. He sent me screenshots of five Claude Code sessions running at once and told me he felt plugged in…

A founder told me a few weeks ago that his remote team wasn’t working out. Good developers on paper, he said, but the work kept missing the mark, and he wanted to know if he should swap them for a …

A year ago I was the guy rolling his eyes at the AI demos.

I slept with my laptop last night. Open, on the bed, with a Claude session still running.

In January, Andrej Karpathy (the guy who helped start OpenAI and ran AI at Tesla) wrote a short post on X about how his programming workflow had changed.

Every other LinkedIn post these days is some flavor of “I built a SaaS over the weekend with Claude Code and I don’t need engineers anymore.”

Here’s a test for any engineering leader reading this: Delete your backlog.

There is a new bet running through every engineering org I talk to in 2026.

Software developers are going to replace software engineers. That isn’t a typo. It’s what AI is actually doing to our industry, and most people don’t see it because they weren’t around 25 years ago…

Every CTO I talk to has a version of the same conversation happening on their team right now. An engineer is scared. They’ve seen what Claude Code can do. They’re watching AI ship entire features. …

Software engineering has changed more in the last two years than in the previous ten.

The industry is having a full-on panic attack about what AI means for hiring engineers.

You don’t scale creativity with headcount.

There’s a dangerous moment in most engineering teams.

When I first became a CTO, I thought my job was to be the smartest technical person in the room.