Charles Menguy

👩🏻‍💻 Staff+ Machine Learning Engineer @ @Adobe
🧩 AI Platforms, Big Data, Agentic Systems & Enterprise LLMs
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[Charles Menguy @cmenguy]

@bcherny Hey Boris - focus is something I've been wanting to use for a while, but upon trying it with the latest it doesn't seem the command is available. This is on v2.1.111 which seems to be the latest - could you share if it's on a yet unreleased one?

[Charles Menguy @cmenguy]

@StevenFulop Concerning trends. The city has a lot going for it, do we have people actively working to reverse these numbers?

[Charles Menguy @cmenguy]

@vivoplt Very good list of impactful papers, but some of these are also quite old and far from SoTA these days.

[Charles Menguy @cmenguy]

@anitakirkovska It was a great tool at the time, nowadays it's not really where the bucks are going though.

[Charles Menguy @cmenguy]

@andrewchen As someone who has been coding for 20+ years - I'm down!

The hard part never really was coding, it was knowing what to build and how to build it.

I'll still miss spending days in a codebase coding though, it's to me very fun and almost therapeutic.

[Charles Menguy @cmenguy]

@plainionist I haven't seen a scrum master for almost 15 years, that stuff is long dead.

[Charles Menguy @cmenguy]

@Yuchenj_UW We're only 4 months into 2026, it's bound to happen sooner or later 😅

[Charles Menguy @cmenguy]

Looking in the new @AnthropicAI Managed Agents - overall excited about the direction & architecture, makes it so much faster to ship agentic work!

There are concerns about centralizing orchestration at this level but Anthropic's commitment to AI safety makes me feel better.

[Charles Menguy @cmenguy]

@dexhorthy Sunday, talk about building enterprise-grade managed agents over steak & eggs?

[Charles Menguy @cmenguy]

Finally wrapped up my blog series on AI code gen with a very practical use case - auto-generating PRs from Jira issues!

Read on https://t.co/k5sRoAohNE

@gitconnected @TreyHuffine

[Charles Menguy @cmenguy]

@Yuchenj_UW It's a setting, you can just disable that in your settings.json, see https://t.co/EYhIGcwFPJ

[Charles Menguy @cmenguy]

@konnydev Europe has the rules and regulations to extract money from Claude and Deepseek.

But more seriously, @MistralAI is doing some decent stuff although they're very far behind other frontier labs, but their strength is probably on open-weight and being EU-native.

[Charles Menguy @cmenguy]

Very true, but that also brings a problem - if intelligence ~= compute then how do smaller companies with lower funding compete with behemoths who can give unlimited compute to their engineers?

[Thariq @trq212]

an increasingly large part of the job of an engineer is deciding how much compute to spend on a problem

[Charles Menguy @cmenguy]

@SidJain_80 Happy to connect with a fellow AI builder

[Charles Menguy @cmenguy]

@charliermarsh Congrats! Use your tools quite a bit, this is a great outcome. But please keep the open-source work you're doing alive and well!

[Charles Menguy @cmenguy]

@SergioRocks True story. Seen that across the industry.

But I'll go further, even director+ levels are being flattened, heck I see sr dirs and VPs coding and pushing PRs now - that did NOT happen even a year ago!

[Charles Menguy @cmenguy]

@SaaiArora @tryramp NYC during Summer time is... ugh, hope you like the heat!

Happy to connect if you want to talk AI or just whatever.

[Charles Menguy @cmenguy]

@craigzLiszt Hard disagree on that. Have you ever tried building features in a gigantic codebase? Even top of the line frontier models seem to get lost now in my experience.

Will they get better? Probably. Will I ever trust them to the point of going to prod with zero human review? Def not.

[Charles Menguy @cmenguy]

Struggling with the proliferation of skills nowadays - tools like https://t.co/giLJGQxVy7 are great but then you have multiple skills doing the same thing and little in the way of evaluation to know which works best.

Really need an industry standard for skill evals I feel...

[Charles Menguy @cmenguy]

Wrote my second article on agentic code generation which was published yesterday with the good folks of @gitconnected @TreyHuffine

You can find it under https://t.co/nDZLnfEgxj and hopefully learn a thing or 2!