Learning to tech!
The Setup I wanted to see if I could get AI agents to do real development work — not just answer questions in a chat window, but actually analyze codebases, create tickets, and eventually ship features. Not a toy experiment. Real projects, real code. The stack: PaperclipAI — the agent platform. Think of it as OpenClaw but for teams. You point it at your repos and it spawns agents that can reason…
Two developers. Same tools. Same Claude subscription. Same Cursor license. One ships a feature in 45 minutes. The other takes two days. The difference is not intelligence or experience. One is AI-augmented. The other is AI-native. Those are not the same thing. Anthropic's fifth economic impact report confirmed it: early adopters extract significantly more value from the same tools everyone else…
I stopped running traditional engineering interviews last year. No whiteboard. No LeetCode. No "reverse a linked list from memory while three people watch." Here's what I do instead, and why it gives me 10x better signal on who can actually do the job. The problem Most engineering interviews are testing for a world that doesn't exist anymore. You sit a candidate down and ask them to solve an…
On any given day I'm writing TypeScript, reviewing PRs, debugging Cloud Run deployments, drafting docs, and maintaining a knowledge base. Each switch has a cost. Each cost compounds. AI tooling doesn't replace my thinking. It compresses the low-leverage parts so I can focus on what actually matters. Where AI Fits in My Workflow Knowledge management. I run my second brain on Obsidian with a PARA…
Let's talk about the eternal struggle. Not "tabs vs spaces" (it's tabs, fight me). I mean the tension between getting stuff done and getting stuff done right . Productivity vs craft. Speed vs quality. Shipping vs polishing. The two traps The velocity trap: "I'll refactor it later," you whisper, knowing 'later' is a mythical land where you also floss daily. Narrator: They did not refactor it later.…
Let's talk about secrets. No, not the "I still listen to early 2000s pop music" kind. I mean the juicy stuff - API keys, database passwords, service account credentials. The things that make your Cloud Build actually do things. The problem? You need these secrets during your build, but you also need to not accidentally broadcast them to the world. Enter Secret Manager, your new best friend. "I'll…
A tech lead is someone who has two main roles - they are a skilled technical worker, and they also take on a leadership position within the team. So a tech lead not only does hands-on technical work themselves. Some key responsibilities of a Tech Lead They oversee the technical aspects of a software team Making the architectural and design decisions Guiding team members in technical stuff Making…
We all have dreams and goals we want to achieve in our lives. At some point, we wanted to do something but we wait for that perfect moment, for that "motivation" to kick in. This is an ideal way to achieve failure because MOTIVATION IS PERISHABLE . It doesn’t last forever. Motivation should be the reason behind your goals. But in actually achieving those goals you should be disciplined. Think of…
Earlier this year I passed my Google Cloud Developer Certification . The certification exam cost $125 and consists of 50-60 questions with a 2 hours time constraint. I don’t have 3+ years of experience as recommended by Google to pass this exam, I’ve only been using GCP products for a whole year. Luckily, I had people to help me prepare for the certification and guide me on what to review. In this…