Recently, I was tagged on a LinkedIn discussion about system design interviews. The interviewer had a problem I suspect a lot of technical interviewers are having these days. A candidate proposes a technology or vendor that you don’t know particularly well as a solution to your question and makes a factual claim about it. For …
Many tech leaders have seen the Notion feedback automation intake funnel. A piece of feedback, in this case, a bug report, comes in from somewhere, AI triages and categorizes it in a Notion database, routes it to the right team, pulls up related discussions and potentially relevant context, notifies that team on Slack, and drafts …
Someone in your company built something to learn or fix an immediate problem, not to run as a production service. That’s happening more frequently with AI-enabled development. They built to learn, not to earn, to borrow Marty Cagan’s vernacular. The artifact they created exists to test an idea, a workflow, or a customer reaction — …
Infrastructure used to be only created by decision. Now it’s also created by adoption. Useful tools are getting built everywhere now — a solutions architect writes an integration wrapper to unblock onboarding, a PM stands up a dashboard pulling from three APIs, an engineer builds a CLI to automate a migration. These things work. They …
