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Blog 2 months ago
AI Is Only as Good as the Document Pipeline Behind It
At the WeAreDevelopers World Congress 2026 in Berlin, I spoke with Luca Mancinelli (Solutions Engineer, Apryse), about a part of the AI stack that tends to receive far less attention than models themselves: the document pipeline. As companies move more of
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Blog 2 months ago
Cursor and Nokia: AI Matters Less for Speed Than Expanding Developers' Capabilities
This year, I attended the RAISE Summit in Paris. Among the conversations I followed, one panel in particular caught my attention: "The ROI on Intelligence: Turning AI Investment into Enterprise Transformation." What made it especially interesting to me wa
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Blog 2 months ago
Your .env File Wasn't Built for AI Agents. 1Password Has a Better Way.
At the Raise Summit in Paris, I caught up with Richard Kirby, Office of the CTO at 1Password. We sat down to discuss why passwords haven't disappeared, where passkeys still stall in practice, how engineering teams should approach service accounts and AI a
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Blog 2 months ago
Netlify's CTO: You learn more from shipping 30 imperfect apps than from one perfect tutorial
Last autumn, I had the chance to speak with Dana Lawson, CTO at Netlify, for ShiftMag. This year, I was thrilled to learn that she'll be joining us as a speaker at Infobip Shift in Zadar - and ShiftMag readers can get a special discount. Ahead of her talk
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Blog 2 months ago
We Usually Blame the AI Model, But the Harness Is What Breaks Production
A few years ago, building an AI app was hard. Today, anyone can put together an LLM, connect a few APIs, and build a strong demo in a day. But turning that demo into a production app is still much harder. At the AI Engineer World Fair, I talked with Mike
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Blog 2 months ago
What If the Biggest Bottleneck Behind AI's 10 Promise Is the Human Engineer?
For the last year, a bold sentence has hung over engineers' heads: with tools like Claude Code, we will speed up our delivery by up to 10x. I even personally wrote: It is no longer impossible to think that one engineer with Claude Code can produce what a
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News ShiftMag 4 months ago
AI in Engineering Teams: ROI, Code Review, and Hiring
At a Shift CTO Craft dinner in Toronto, senior engineering leaders debated AI ROI, code review bottlenecks, hiring, cognitive debt, and vendor lock-in.
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News ShiftMag 4 months ago
The Small Lies Developers Tell to Keep Work Moving
Developers share how they handle deadlines, pressure, and the small lies that keep teams moving.
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20 Year Old Unicorn Goes AI-First Without Mass AI Layoffs
For the ones who are willing to learn, regardless of experience them, AI is a new mindset, not a threat to ignore.
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News ShiftMag 5 months ago
Killing PRs was the easy part. Now Technical Death Keeps the CTO Up.
Sander Hoogendoorn's team ditched pull requests and rigid Agile. Now iBOOD's CTO warns AI-generated complexity could drive teams to "technical death."
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