AI Engineer Conference 2026: 10/10, No Notes 🥇
A week of conversations with Elastic, Warp, PlanetScale, OpenAI, Sentry, LangChain, and Together AI about observability and agentic lifecycle tooling, and how much of it runs through Slack.
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Non-Devs Shipping Code: My Take, Featured on Aviator 🎢
Got quoted talking about non-engineers shipping code at Slack: a trend I described as 'a roller coaster: really fun, a little scary, but it's happening.'
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Code with Claude 🤖
Four takeaways from Anthropic's developer conference in San Francisco — rapid growth, context switching as a superpower, customization gaps, and Slack-native AI workflows.
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Featured: How to Do AI-Assisted Engineering in the Enterprise ✍🏽
Contributed to Gregor Ojstersek's Engineering Leadership newsletter — one of 15 engineers sharing how we're actually using AI in our day-to-day workflows.
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Leland AMA: Ask Me Anything as a Software Engineering Interviewer 🎤
Hosted a virtual AMA on Leland for Software Engineering Recruiting Week, sharing candid insights on what interviewers actually look for, what raises red flags, and how hiring decisions are really made.
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Deep Atlas MLI Cohort 21: Compressing 6 Months of AI/ML into One Week
I attended Deep Atlas's immersive ML bootcamp in SF with a crew of Slack engineers, gave a lightning talk on my AI workflow, and walked away with a much stronger foundation in ML, from linear algebra all the way to LLM agents.
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Shipping Slack's Sidebar Indentation 💅🏽
Shipped sidebar improvements to Slack including channel indentation, smart breakpoints, consistent padding, and default section icons — a thoughtful glow-up that improves usability without disrupting familiarity.
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Reflections from The Pragmatic Engineer Summit 🛠️
Attended The Pragmatic Engineer Summit hosted by Gergely Orosz and Statsig — key takeaway: AI adoption is high, but real organizational impact is still the hard part.
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Shipping Slack's Customize Notifications Modal 🔔
Shipped a new Customize Notifications modal for Slack that lets users visualize and personalize channel notifications — high-impact, highly collaborative work that affects millions of Slack users daily.
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Stay in the Loop ✍🏽
I share what I’m learning about bringing AI agents to whole companies, for engineers and everyone else. Follow along for more.