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Post Facto A Blog by Holly French I'm Holly, a software engineering manager based in San Francisco. I currently lead two engineering teams at Fieldwire by Hilti: one's a full-stack engineering team, and one's a bit more computer vision focused, which has been very fun to learn more about.
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Teaching Myself SLAM By Making Claude Code Teach Itself SLAM
Last year, when Claude Code started getting really good, I asked Claude to teach me the SLAM algorithm, and so we built a working prototype together. It wasn't perfect, but I learned quite a lot. At Fieldwire, we've been doing quite a lot of work with our
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AI and Imposter Syndrome: A Paradox
I'm far from the only person who has felt the dreaded Imposter Syndrome in their career. In high school and college, I studied, took hard classes, and got pretty good grades. Did pretty well in coding interviews. But then, I got my first job out of colleg
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Seven Reasons Engineers Hate Their Managers in the Age of AI
1. Information-gathering is becoming more siloed When I first joined Fieldwire, I joined as an engineering manager who had no previous experience contributing to Fieldwire's codebase. I was a blank slate. No historical knowledge of product decisions, no c
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Blogging is Dead. Long Live the Blog!
If I see ONE MORE AI slop blog post, I'm gonna scream. Or maybe not scream, but at least unsubscribe from your feed. And then I'll probably loudly and overconfidently decree that blogging is dead. That said, I have a lot of uncorralled thoughts about the
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A Week In Lebanon
Since I've spent the majority of this past year in not-America, I've tried to travel to places I've never been, now that I'm already out-and-about. I think I've covered about eleven countries in the past eleven months, but the country that has made the si
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