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Don’t Waste Your Career Getting Comfortable
Your job can be going well while your career quietly stalls
Aug 25
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The Case for Becoming a Manager
Mar 24
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The Sign-Off Layer Is Becoming the Real Engineering System
Jun 9
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The Talent Pipeline Is Collapsing. Your Team Will Feel It Next.
Mar 10
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I Think a New Role Is Emerging in Tech
Mar 17
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The PR Shipped. Did the Engineer Grow?
AI can improve engineering output while weakening the signals managers use to evaluate growth.
Jul 21
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Juan Cruz Martinez
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The New Engineering Lead’s Guide to Time Management
A practical guide to protecting your calendar, delegating earlier, making better decisions, and creating space for your team to do good work.
Jul 16
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Juan Cruz Martinez
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The Prototype Is a Question, Not a Product
Use AI to turn disagreement into evidence without mistaking a polished demo for a product decision.
Jul 14
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The Hiring Signal Is Moving Out of the Code
AI did not make technical interviews less technical. It changed what the interview has to prove.
Jun 16
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Juan Cruz Martinez
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The Token Budget Is Becoming Engineering Policy
AI coding is moving from personal workflow to metered infrastructure, and the next fight is over budgets, incentives, and who gets to spend.
Jun 12
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Learn How AI is Transforming our Work
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Slowing AI Down Won’t Be Enough
A security perspective on pacing the frontier, the systems we trust to contain AI, and the human oversight we risk losing.
Sep 15
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Juan Cruz Martinez
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The AI Score Answers the Wrong Question
AI can help with prose. The author still has to supply the judgment and own the result.
Jul 28
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The PR Shipped. Did the Engineer Grow?
AI can improve engineering output while weakening the signals managers use to evaluate growth.
Jul 21
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Juan Cruz Martinez
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When AI-First Becomes a Loyalty Test
Adoption pressure can teach engineers to perform belief instead of improving the work.
Jul 7
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Markdown Is Becoming the Application Layer of AI Apps
Why AI apps are moving from framework-heavy orchestration to harnesses plus Markdown.
Jun 29
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Juan Cruz Martinez
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When Everything Points in the Same Direction
On ambition, work, side projects, and making space for the life happening around you.
Sep 4
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Don’t Waste Your Career Getting Comfortable
Your job can be going well while your career quietly stalls
Aug 25
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Juan Cruz Martinez
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The PR Shipped. Did the Engineer Grow?
AI can improve engineering output while weakening the signals managers use to evaluate growth.
Jul 21
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Juan Cruz Martinez
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Staying Technical as a Tech Manager: A Practical Guide
What I've learned about staying connected to code when the role keeps pulling me away.
Apr 21
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Juan Cruz Martinez
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The Case for Becoming a Manager
I read an article recently arguing that senior engineers shouldn't become managers. Observations are mostly right. The conclusion is still wrong. I made…
Mar 24
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The Prototype Is a Question, Not a Product
Use AI to turn disagreement into evidence without mistaking a polished demo for a product decision.
Jul 14
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Juan Cruz Martinez
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2
Markdown Is Becoming the Application Layer of AI Apps
Why AI apps are moving from framework-heavy orchestration to harnesses plus Markdown.
Jun 29
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Juan Cruz Martinez
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2
The Token Budget Is Becoming Engineering Policy
AI coding is moving from personal workflow to metered infrastructure, and the next fight is over budgets, incentives, and who gets to spend.
Jun 12
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Juan Cruz Martinez
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The Sign-Off Layer Is Becoming the Real Engineering System
AI made code generation cheaper. The part that still matters is whether a human can understand, verify, and own what the agent produced.
Jun 9
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Juan Cruz Martinez
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The GTM for Developer Tools Is Breaking in Two Places at Once
Two shifts hit dev-tool go-to-market at once. The funnel was built for neither.
May 15
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Juan Cruz Martinez
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