Tag: technology

  • Management Style: Standard-Bearer

    One of the common questions that is asked of Engineering managers as they go through the gauntlet of an interview process, or even just reflecting on their impact in an organization is “What is your leadership style?”. This is such a tricky question because the Engineering Manager role is demanding: you have to be a…

  • We’re all AI Engineers now.

    On non-determinism in Software Engineering. This year we’ve seen the rise of the term “AI Engineer” in job openings. How does this differ from Machine Learning Engineering, which is a combination of Model Training, Inference Optimization and traditional distributed systems engineering skills? The AI Engineer role is meant to address the fact that calling AI…

  • Vibe Coding: A Review

    It was the tweet (xeet) that launched a thousand vibes-based projects. Early in February, Andrej Karpathy posted about how good AI-assisted coding had gotten. The interesting thing about this kind of vibe-based coding is that his flow – using SuperWhisper and Cursor means that he is basically interacting with his codebase at a high level.…