As a people leader, I am very intentional about developing my employees and their careers.
That sounds obvious but so many leaders only care about the business objectives. I care about both and find ways to make these overlap.
I lost my entire team this year due to layoffs but every one of them landed a new role in like a month or so, even in a super tough and competitive market, because I was deliberate about preparing them not just for this job but also the next.
They're so amazing 🥹
At some point soon, we're going to have to admit that we no longer truly understand the systems we're building.
Companies are openly bragging that their developers don't bother looking at the code their agents produce; and it's so much of it, that code reviews have become a passive thumbs up.
Even without AI generated features, modern systems are already extremely complex which makes it challenging to debug, especially in areas where you're not a subject matter expert.
Now is not the time to slack on observability. If anything, the need just went up. We have to be able to properly investigate incidents when they inevitably occur.
I like Honeycomb Canvas for this because it gives me an interactive workspace where I can explore and debug in natural language without manually piecing together queries across telemetry data.
"Why was the checkout flow so slow yesterday?"
"Customers are complaining about site crashes. Help me figure out what's wrong."
"There are reports of an outage... how widespread is this?"
Canvas runs queries on your traces and structured events, giving you visualizations to help you quickly get to the root of the issue. It'll even suggest follow ups if you're not sure where to look next.
My favorite usage is @'ing the Canvas Slack bot to pull insights right into team discussions 👌🏽
If you're not already using Canvas, it's definitely worth checking out: https://t.co/NU5P1PAysk
Shoutout to the good folks @honeycombio for the collaboration. Really enjoying Canvas, and I've been playing around with the MCP server too :)
If you landed your job before 2023, please lead with perspective and empathy when advising people in the current job market. They're in a different battlefield and failures are usually not from lack of trying.
@engineering_bae I tried to warn people those “tax breaks” that made their checks bigger like 2 years ago were just a deferment to higher taxes later. It’s going to be rough.
Four years ago, I joined Spotify Advertising not knowing how much it would shape me.
I found mentors I didn't expect. Challenges that stretched me. And coworkers who became some of my favorite humans.
But growth has a funny way of pointing you toward the next door — and mine is now wide open. I'm thrilled to share that I'm joining Spotify's Music Mission.
Ads gave me a foundation I'll carry forever. Now I get to take everything I've learned and pour it into the other side of this incredible company — helping bring music to the world in an even bigger way.
New chapter. Same passion. Let's go. 🎵
The road to becoming an AI-native org is paved with new (and arguably exciting?) challenges.
We've gotten to the point where we're delegating work to multiple agents running in parallel. But now it's a human and 5 agents all trying to work on a single laptop. Yes, this is as messy as it sounds lol.
We've built an orchestrator, but that only solves coordination. My poor laptop is still fighting for its life!
We used @CoderHQ to provision dedicated, isolated Workspaces so that both devs and agents could run their tasks in our cloud-based environments. Now each workflow has its own space with the resources and dependencies it needs without stepping on anything else.
That also gave us more control. Work is now consistent and reproducible with the right guardrails in place.
If your org has agents as workers, it's time to get them off of your engineers' laptops and into proper environments. Tools like Coder make that possible with features like Agent Boundaries, AI Bridge, and Tasks to help teams run agents securely and at scale, whether in your cloud or on prem.
Thanks so much for the collaboration, Coder! We're now cooking
Check it out for yourself
https://t.co/yViPLPfzkg
It was fun to share my business journey with Voyage Denver.
Thanks to everyone whose been cheering me on over the 8+years!
Inspiring Conversations with Lucas Casarez of Level Up Financial Planning, LLC - https://t.co/X3JtQc5wBr