Billi Ramirez

Tech Lead, Engineering @ Deel
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[Billi Ramirez @billiramirezdev]

𝗦𝗽𝗲𝗰𝗶𝗳𝘆𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝗰𝗹𝗲𝗮𝗿 𝗿𝗲𝗾𝘂𝗶𝗿𝗲𝗺𝗲𝗻𝘁𝘀 𝗶𝗻 𝗔𝗜 𝘁𝗼𝗼𝗹𝘀 𝗶𝘀 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗻𝗲𝘄 "𝗰𝗼𝗱𝗶𝗻𝗴" 🔑

𝗨𝗻𝗰𝗹𝗲 𝗕𝗼𝗯 predicted this years ago:

𝘞𝘦 𝘸𝘰𝘶𝘭𝘥 𝘦𝘷𝘦𝘯𝘵𝘶𝘢𝘭𝘭𝘺 𝘳𝘦𝘢𝘤𝘩 𝘢 𝘭𝘦𝘷𝘦𝘭 𝘰𝘧 𝘢𝘣𝘴𝘵𝘳𝘢𝘤𝘵𝘪𝘰𝘯 𝘸𝘩𝘦𝘳𝘦 𝘸𝘦 𝘤𝘳𝘦𝘢𝘵𝘦 𝘱𝘳𝘰𝘨𝘳𝘢𝘮𝘴 𝘥𝘪𝘳𝘦𝘤𝘵𝘭𝘺 𝘧𝘳𝘰𝘮 𝘴𝘱𝘦𝘤𝘪𝘧𝘪𝘤𝘢𝘵𝘪𝘰𝘯𝘴.

With the rise of agentic tools like 𝗖𝗹𝗮𝘂𝗱𝗲 𝗖𝗼𝗱𝗲, we are officially entering that era. 💻

Now, the common refrain is: "𝘗𝘳𝘰𝘨𝘳𝘢𝘮𝘮𝘦𝘳𝘴 𝘸𝘰𝘯'𝘵 𝘣𝘦 𝘯𝘦𝘦𝘥𝘦𝘥 𝘣𝘦𝘤𝘢𝘶𝘴𝘦 𝘤𝘰𝘥𝘦 𝘪𝘴 𝘯𝘰 𝘭𝘰𝘯𝘨𝘦𝘳 𝘯𝘦𝘤𝘦𝘴𝘴𝘢𝘳𝘺." But here’s the reality: Code isn't going anywhere. Code represents the ultimate detail of a requirement. At a certain level, those details cannot be ignored or abstracted away by AI.

The way we use tools today requires the same rigor we’ve always used: it must be accurate, formal, and so detailed that a machine can execute it without ambiguity. 🤖

Well-specified requirements are just as formal as code, making the human factor more important than ever. We shouldn't fear this revolution; we should leverage it to move from "𝘄𝗿𝗶𝘁𝗶𝗻𝗴" to "𝗮𝗿𝗰𝗵𝗶𝘁𝗲𝗰𝘁𝗶𝗻𝗴." 🚀

𝗛𝗼𝘄 𝘁𝗼 𝗮𝗱𝗮𝗽𝘁:

• 𝗘𝗺𝗯𝗿𝗮𝗰𝗲 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗰𝗵𝗮𝗻𝗴𝗲: AI is here to stay. Treat tools like Claude Code as your "staff engineer" while you remain the Chief Architect.

• 𝗙𝗼𝗰𝘂𝘀 𝗼𝗻 𝗜𝗻𝘁𝗲𝗻𝘁: Shift your energy from syntax to the architectural patterns and logic that govern the system. 🏗️

• 𝗚𝗼 𝗯𝗮𝗰𝗸 𝘁𝗼 𝗳𝘂𝗻𝗱𝗮𝗺𝗲𝗻𝘁𝗮𝗹𝘀: You need strong criteria to review, audit, and catch hallucinations in AI-generated code. If you don't know the fundamentals, you're just debugging code you didn't write. 📚

The terminal is becoming a place for conversation and intent, not just commands. Let's build better, faster.

Are we moving toward a future where "𝘗𝘳𝘰𝘮𝘱𝘵 𝘌𝘯𝘨𝘪𝘯𝘦𝘦𝘳𝘪𝘯𝘨" is just another name for "𝘙𝘦𝘲𝘶𝘪𝘳𝘦𝘮𝘦𝘯𝘵𝘴 𝘌𝘯𝘨𝘪𝘯𝘦𝘦𝘳𝘪𝘯𝘨"?

[Billi Ramirez @billiramirezdev]

My daughter's meltdowns teach me something about emotions.

Her crying is real. The pain is real. She just doesn't have the tools to handle it yet.

Once it passes, relief floods in. She's fine.

That's not spoiling. That's what emotional development looks like. She's learning to move through feelings, not avoid them.

[Billi Ramirez @billiramirezdev]

Creating skills can be hard sometimes when you try to explain your flows, but Claude has now added Record a skill.

Record your screen while you do a task, talk through it as you go, and Claude turns it into a skill it can run again

[Billi Ramirez @billiramirezdev]

Two 𝗺𝗼𝗻𝘁𝗵s 𝗮𝗴𝗼, 𝗜 𝗰𝗿𝗼𝘀𝘀𝗲𝗱 𝗮𝗻 𝗲𝗻𝘁𝗶𝗿𝗲 𝗰𝗼𝗻𝘁𝗶𝗻𝗲𝗻𝘁 𝘁𝗼 𝗺𝗲𝗲𝘁 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗽𝗲𝗼𝗽𝗹𝗲 𝗜 𝘁𝗮𝗹𝗸 𝘁𝗼 𝗲𝘃𝗲𝗿𝘆 𝗱𝗮𝘆. 𝗜𝘁 𝘄𝗮𝘀 𝘄𝗼𝗿𝘁𝗵 𝗲𝘃𝗲𝗿𝘆 𝗵𝗼𝘂𝗿.

We gathered in Madrid 🇪🇸 — not just for the meetings, but for something harder to schedule: real human connection.

The mission was clear: set the right foundations for what’s coming in Deel Core over the next months. But what I’ll actually remember is finally putting faces to the names behind every Slack message, every production incident, every “I’ve got you” moment when things get tough.

These are the people building the future of global hiring — with an agentic AI mindset and the ambition to create something truly generational.

The energy in that room was something else. And it reminded me why the work matters.

[Billi Ramirez @billiramirezdev]

"Manager roles are dead."

Translation: "We didn't think about how to evolve them with AI."

Smart orgs are discovering: a manager with a small team + AI tools becomes an IC again—but better. They code, design, write, lead. All at once.

That role isn't dead. It's just been reimagined.

[Billi Ramirez @billiramirezdev]

If your business isn’t leveraging AI yet, you’re already falling behind.

AI isn’t just hype—it’s operational leverage:

• Reclaim hours, days, and weeks of team bandwidth

• Automate the manual, repetitive tasks choking your flow

• Direct resources toward high-impact, strategic work

You already know where your bottlenecks are. Take advantage of the current AI market competition and lock in a great deal for your company.

[Billi Ramirez @billiramirezdev]

@midudev Agent harnesses?

[Billi Ramirez @billiramirezdev]

You gotta be really critic about the prompts you make, don’t get comfortable giving poor context, references, constraints.

Every new good prompt will give you better results + clear statements on what you want as output.

[Billi Ramirez @billiramirezdev]

2026 World Cup = most tech-loaded eve

Smart ball tracks contact 500x/sec

All 1,248 players body-scanned into 3D avatars

Offside precision down to 10cm

Instant audio alerts to refs’ earpieces

Body cams on every match

AI analyzing 100M+ data points

[Billi Ramirez @billiramirezdev]

I could never imagine how the industry was going to switch 3 years ago.

I recall reading about prompt engineering, some folks said such term shouldn’t exist.

I was mostly reading it for ChatGPT usage

I couldn’t even grasp the idea of the coding assistant we would have now.

[Billi Ramirez @billiramirezdev]

@MarioNawfal You can have the best player in the world. But if the team doesn't share vision, culture, and values, you get infighting instead of execution.

[Billi Ramirez @billiramirezdev]

You can't hire your way out of poor culture.

A team of rockstars without a shared vision will lose to a disciplined team every time.

Messi's last push couldn't overcome the team's immaturity.

Alignment beats talent. Always.

[Billi Ramirez @billiramirezdev]

I guess is clear which team my daughter is supporting today. 😅

[Billi Ramirez @billiramirezdev]

@luismejiadev Tambien carón.

[Billi Ramirez @billiramirezdev]

KFC anunció finalmente fecha de inauguración. 24 de Agosto

Me gusta ver competencias, porque es buena, quiero ver como le van a las empresas locales, algunas de ellas ya son buenas y conocidas.

[Billi Ramirez @billiramirezdev]

People using agent harnesses are the most beneficial from this AI competition, they could be shipping products really fast, by switching models.

They must have a pretty good setup though and not ending up in a big Frankenstein AI built product 😅

[Billi Ramirez @billiramirezdev]

Building something impactful at @deel ? Our CEO just raised the stakes. 🚀

Pitch how your project drives massive value for the company or our clients, and we’ll double (2x) your Claude token credit limit.🤯

Time to ship 🚀

[Billi Ramirez @billiramirezdev]

Frontend Code Arena leaderboard:

Kimi-K3: 1,679
Claude Fable 5: 1,631
GPT-5.6 Sol: 1,618

48 points ahead. The gap is real but not insurmountable.

Full rankings at https://t.co/y9Jtct47JC

[Billi Ramirez @billiramirezdev]

Result: Claude executes the entire task, soup to nuts.

You review at the end, not in the middle.

This is how you get autonomous coding.

Not by hoping—by structuring the request so interruption becomes unnecessary.

[Billi Ramirez @billiramirezdev]

How to enable true auto-mode in Claude Code

The mistake: treating it like a chat.

Ask → answer → ask → answer.

The fix: front-load everything. Let it run.

Here's the pattern:

[Billi Ramirez @billiramirezdev]

Pack the initial prompt with:
- Full ticket context (not sparse)
- Reference files & functions (not "figure it out")
- Hard constraints (not suggestions)
- The plan you want it to follow (not open-ended)

This is the inverse of chat UX—more upfront work = zero-interruption mode.