I'm a software developer who loves to develop people. Currently Engineering Manager @brexhq Former CTO @bxbluebr | @ycombinator S17 My opinions are my own

Brasilia, DF
Joined October 2009
I remember people whose whole job was modeling UML. I wonder how many of the new AI job titles will last more than 12 months.
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Recently, while mentoring a founder, they ditched a referral for being "too good." My push? You lost the hiring game if you think like that. The best Startups are great at poaching folks way beyond their current capabilities. That's one of the most amazing superpowers they have
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As a leader, if your team cannot influence you, are you even leading?
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Personal Assistants are great, but this also makes me reflect on how people will intentionally dismantle care in an age when interactions and remembrance become automated.
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I always feed my agents with organic data. Synthetic data tends to give them some hallucinations.
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Nowadays, my routine with my agents feels like playing Harvest Moon. Maybe that's the UI I need to build/spend my tokens on.
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Important question: Should I capitalize my acronyms or not? WDYT?
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Seems like a social network for humans is the most innovative idea ATM
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One thing startup life taught me is to celebrate every win, no matter how small.
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From now on I just use <meme tags> and assume people can access the gif from (brain) memory
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If you want some random chart in your Google Doc, just go @line_chart ... very useful ... not
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Why the hell Google Docs emojis still have no "Recently used" section :(
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The Law of Unintended Consequences is brutal.
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It's a city design crime to have a bike path without a parallel walking path.
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"The default state for startups is failing"
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Now that I have friends using personal AI assistants I have to Turing test my conversations. I was not expecting that so soon
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