Damien Filiatrault

Founder & CEO, Scalable Path | Software Architect | 13+ years experience hiring technical talent | Sharing my thoughts on hiring, AI, and remote work.

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Customer trust rarely disappears all at once.

Eric Ries and I discuss Groupon, short-term metrics, and how product choices can quietly burn trust over time.
The question is not just “will this improve the metric?” It’s what trust are we spending?

YouTube https://t.co/LzoyHxuDG0

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Founders often leave governance, ownership, and mission protection for later.

But Eric Ries puts it well: “It’s always too early until it’s too late.”

A useful reminder for anyone building a company meant to last.

YouTube https://t.co/LzoyHxuDG0

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Some companies feel different because ethos shows up in what they repeatedly do, not just what they say.

Eric Ries and I discuss Costco, Patagonia, and building something worth protecting.

Listen: YouTube https://t.co/CpGexSKvL9

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New Commit & Push episode is live: Eric Ries on The Lean Startup, Incorruptible, and building companies that last.

How do founders protect mission, governance, and ownership before it’s too late?

Listen: https://t.co/6KYXTMgD2j

#Startups #EricRies #TheLeanStartup

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Next week on Commit & Push: my conversation with Eric Ries, author of The Lean Startup and the upcoming Incorruptible.

We talked about how companies can grow without losing their mission, trust, and discipline, and the quiet failures that can happen after success.

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Daily commits are more than version control.

They build trust, improve visibility, reduce risk, and help remote teams keep momentum.

Not about noise or lines of code, but a steady rhythm of meaningful progress.

Read more: https://t.co/ncNXMMOWxt

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I enjoyed Chase AI’s video comparing Claude Design with Huashu Design, an open-source tool that brings similar workflows to Claude Code and other coding agents, using fewer credits for landing pages, slide decks, and mockups.
🔗 https://t.co/coMHtYFnTw

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AI design tools are moving fast. Claude Design, Canva AI 2.0, and Google Stitch all signal the same shift: AI is becoming a practical part of real design workflows. Excited to try Claude Design with Figma, Canva, and Claude Code. https://t.co/Yq4nCiKIYR

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The costliest hiring mistake often isn’t the obvious bad hire.

It’s the near-miss: great on paper, strong in interviews, but lacking judgment, communication, or ownership.

For early-stage teams, that mismatch slows execution and creates drag. https://t.co/pN67G5AW8u

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A lot of bad digital experiences aren’t accidents. They reflect what the system optimizes for. In online news, maximizing time-on-page often means more friction, interruptions, and user-hostile design.

Worth a read: https://t.co/hAl0F1RO9g

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As AI agents get more capable, developers are building “harnesses” to manage reliability gaps, but those gaps keep shifting with each new model.
Anthropic’s answer: separate the “brain” from the “hands” so reasoning and execution can evolve independently. https://t.co/6WoDemfCJU

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AI is making software engineers more productive. That should not mean less engineering, but more software: more ideas becoming viable, more systems getting built, more problems getting solved. The opportunity is expansion. https://t.co/K1TEaHC1bH

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We’re hiring a Senior Backend-Focused Django Developer at Scalable Path to join a fintech team building home equity investment products. Work with Python, Django, PostgreSQL, Redis, Docker, and AWS: https://t.co/ZqLVDgQxNp

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New Commit & Push is live: Ep. 10 with Micah Johnson on AI agents, RAG, and no-code automation. We dig into what makes agents useful, why most AI projects fail, and how teams are building real value.
Youtube: https://t.co/jYTAoohZpv

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We featured this GitHub piece in our newsletter because it nails a key issue in open source: the challenge isn’t just more contributors, but better systems. Reducing maintainer overload and AI noise is what makes growth sustainable.

https://t.co/4LthmYBmy4

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Martin Fowler makes a useful distinction: humans in the loop vs on the loop. The real leverage with AI agents may be in designing the system around them (specs, checks, tests, and feedback), not manually catching every mistake. https://t.co/9ObM0ec0aN

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We’re hiring a Senior Backend-Focused Django Developer at Scalable Path: remote, full-time, with a fintech client in home equity investment. Python, Django, PostgreSQL, Docker, Redis, AWS. Apply: https://t.co/yCg0tlaMSf #Hiring #Django #Python

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NCF Annual Cloud Native Survey: a snapshot of what’s running in production. Surprised: 82% of container users run Kubernetes in prod, K8s is the common platform for microservices and ML/LLM ops.

https://t.co/qa0OvdWFTl

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For years, AWS was our default for app hosting, we advised clients and used it ourselves. We pressure-tested that choice vs alternatives and found a route to 80% lower costs, 5-month payback, and 3-4× faster performance on similar workloads. Full write-up: https://t.co/xiq5KW9YU5