Alex Honnold didn't remove the harness — he internalized it. For 100x engineering teams using AI agents, a load-bearing harness is the only way to climb safely.
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Thoughts on technology, leadership, building teams, and the lessons that come from getting things wrong. Most of what I know, I learned by doing it badly first.
The Anatomy of an AI-Native Org argued that the middle of the org chart collapses because translation work is the work that gets eaten. This is the role-by-r...
For thirty years we were glorified translators — business asked why, product defined what, engineering translated to how. AI just ate the translation step. T...
I argued for tests, trunk-based development, and against the PR-rubber-stamp ritual for twenty years. Most teams didn't listen. Now AI is shipping in hours, ...
Three months into a sabbatical, six things became obvious. Most of them are about the damage we do to ourselves while calling it ambition.
In my last post I wrote about the small island of delight — the agent — surrounded by a sea of ops work. This is the map of that sea. Ten walls people keep h...
It started with a friend weighing a dedicated Mac against a VM full of config. It turned into a question I can't stop thinking about — what blockers are keep...
Every conversation about AI agents celebrates speed. But the hardest problem isn't building agents — it's deciding what 'correct' means. When execution is ne...
After concluding my chapter at PeakXV Partners, I'm learning what it means to slow down, be present, and let curiosity lead. A reflection on gratitude, famil...
CTOs often struggle to get CEO buy-in because they're speaking the wrong language. Learn why translating technical work into business impact—revenue, growth,...
A practical guide for non-technical CEOs on how to effectively partner with their CTOs beyond budgets and updates. Learn how to provide clarity, act as a bri...
Discover the art of self-appraisal that highlights your achievements without sounding like a boast – it's simpler than you think!
Why product engineering teams get stuck in cycles of dysfunction, and the transformative journey from chaos to clarity.
The transformative journey from chaotic, disparate tech stacks to a harmonious, unified, and standardized software building.
Most early-stage products are built custom, one line of code at a time, when they could be assembled from a small set of well-understood building blocks. The...
What does it mean by being a leader.
How do you build brand?
How do you build brand?
Essay on software engineering.
Getting started with TensorFlow2. Installing and Running it on Apple M1 (ARM) (ARM64) Machines.
My notes and observations on scaling orgs
what does it take to shine at a workplace full of hustle, mission and driving positive impact for the next set of end users? what are the important personal ...
Having spent a year at Sequoia, how was last one year? What lies ahead?
An evolution journey of a monolith hawker stall to a micro-services enabled restaurant.
Ajey wrote farewell note for his staff at gojek.
Thanks for kind words Tim. Take care buddy! hopefully you are doing well.
Hard lesson, taking regular breaks, re-fuels your soul and body.
Every time you deploy a piece of software, you’re unknowingly taking an infant on a crazy ride — you expect the deployed software to become…
Sometimes I wonder, what drives me to work everyday? Most of the time it’s the idea of solving a problem or the problem, that I take with…
On April Fools day our app disappeared from the Apple Store. While this sounds like a prank, it was anything but.
Recently, Our friends over at Fallible published a set of vulnerabilities…
In part 1 of this blog, we covered the process of how we used an OpenVPN server to authenticate with our rest based Gate service by hitting…
What started as a short-term hack for us ended up being an open source project that’s now used across Go-Jek. For us, this was a great…
Working with a bunch of super-brainy, highly motivated and passionate individuals on bleeding edge technologies to solve real-life…
Pointers that help us build and run a unicorn startup
Sometimes, you need to sell yourself. What I mean is that you need to sell your services and make sure that people know what they want. If they do, then its ...
That’s the first rule for your startup if you are starting up with few friends. And there are few simple reasons for this, I learned it hardway, I think I sh...
While in Inception, 2010, Sci-Fi Movie things slow down when you incept. But on the contrary, agile inceptions are more like creating the seed of a project....
RubyConf India 14 - Hospitality was anything but pleasant at The Lalit resort and spa, Goa, we had pretty bitter experience and would like to capture it here...
I have always believed in software functionality being ZERO or ONE. It means that either it will work or it will not, very well..! people argue that software...
I love java, rather jvm - well, as technology and have been making use of it. Java world is full of rock solid implementations about technologies and have a ...
At hoppr we get checkins over SMS and USSD, soon our apps will launch across mediums and then we will open up other access mediums.
Source : Stable Diffusion (Revised on 13/02/2023) Thought Experiment on Perceived Image vs Projected Image Every time I look at people judging others...
In the past, I have been in discussion with people - where we tried to answer following questions
Literally means - to ask or not :-) But over here my context is bit different. After taking a brief break from ThoughtWorks, I joined hoppr, a different kin...
Unfortunately, I gone silent after 3 exciting posts on Enterprise Infrastructure Series, there were many events which caused this silence..
In the last two posts I went about how to get basic virutalization and why configuration management is necessary. In this part I will explain about setting...
I lead “Continuous Delivery” group aka DevOps group within ThoughtWorks. One of main principles we follow within our group is that we should automate almost ...
We have been working with OpenVZ for almost 4 years now, and its just amazing that how this nice piece of technology not only provides 99% native virtualizat...
I have been working on setting up internal cloud with my team, we have been using many technologies to build all these things together.