Emil Nikov

Product Engineer at @Workbrew_
Previously @GitHub & @flydotio

[Emil Nikov @enstyled]

Love this 🏡 https://t.co/P4k5HLBnSj

[˗ˏˋ rogie ˎˊ˗ @rogie]

As a 20+ year design engineer, i can say emphatically that AI enables designers to build great PROTOTYPES or small apps.

When @dhh talks about hand-written code being dead...I believe him. I believe this is mourning engineering as it was. But I don't think hand-written code === engineering. I think it was just how we did it.

An engineer thinks in systems, and ways that designers don't often think. I don't think coding is dead. I think it's changed. I value so much my engineers and I witness their talent on the daily, PAIRED with AI as well.

Long live engineering.

[Emil Nikov @enstyled]

CLI > MCP

[Emil Nikov @enstyled]

@dreamture Most importantly, congrats on becoming a dad! 💪🏼👶🏼✨

[Guillermo Rauch @rauchg]

AI alone is cool. But mastery + creativity + AI hits on a whole different level. Don't let anyone discourage you from pursuing excellence and craft. Keep studying the blade.

[Emil Nikov @enstyled]

almost done thinking...

[Paul Graham @paulg]

A Brown professor gave his students a take-home midterm exam. After suspecting many cheated using AI, he made the final in-person. The orange dots are the midterm scores and the gray dots are the final scores. Looks like all but 3 cheated on the midterm.

[Alex Lieberman @businessbarista]

I stole this idea and now use it with every single employee.

It’s the best illustration I’ve seen of teaching someone to be high agency.

It says there are 5 levels of work:

Level 1: “There is a problem.”

Level 2: “There is a problem, and I’ve found some causes.”

Level 3: “Here’s the problem, here are some possible causes, and here are some possible solutions.”

Level 4: “Here’s the problem, here’s what I think caused it, here are some possible solutions, and here’s the one I think we should pick.”

Level 5: “I identified a problem, figured out what caused it, researched how to fix it, and I fixed it. Just wanted to keep you in the loop.”

Using this framework, here’s what I say to every new employee…

You will live at Level 4 from Day 1 and as we build trust you will rise to Level 5.

Being high agency doesn’t just mean tackling problems in this way. It means your entire way of working should be oriented to being a Level 4+ employee.

Plz feel free to steal it as well.

And ty @stephsmithio for the framework!

[Workbrew @Workbrew_]

Join the Workbrew crew 🚀

💻 Lead Product Engineer
🍏 Lead Platform Engineer, macOS
🧪 Solutions Engineer
🚀 Account Executive
🔧 GTM Engineer (contract)

See the roles and apply: https://t.co/wSVknsrhj3

[Emil Nikov @enstyled]

@MikeMcQuaid Congrats! 👏🏼

[usrnk1 @usrnk1]

"nice" is the noise a designer makes when things align

[Emil Nikov @enstyled]

Such a great touch 🎂

[Andreas Storm @avstorm]

New in iOS 27: When you call someone, it shows you their birthday from the contact details.

[Emil Nikov @enstyled]

Way better in my eyes! 👌🏼

[Basic Apple Guy @BasicAppleGuy]

Tahoe v. Golden Gate icon Comparison

[Andreas Storm @avstorm]

The Mickey Mouse pointers are back in macOS 27

[Emil Nikov @enstyled]

https://t.co/96oz1XMmST

[Emil Nikov @enstyled]

https://t.co/my1M4cSiRz

[Paul White Gold Eagle @PaulGoldEagle]

🤣🤣🤣🐦🐈

[Emil Nikov @enstyled]

@thomasauros @raycast Nice! Looking forward to the update 👌🏼

[Emil Nikov @enstyled]

@mdo IDE! IDE! IDE! 👏🏼 Trees look amazing, man!

[Emil Nikov @enstyled]

@mdo Dude, that's a nice looking editor 👌🏼