Tech Field Notes
Francis ShanahanThe engineering career guidance no one gives you. How to get promoted, build influence, and navigate the messy human side of technical work — from someone who learned it the hard way over 28 years at Big Tech and beyond.
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The Ultimate Specification Is Hiding in Plain Sight
The cabin lights are off at 35,000’ somewhere over the mid-west, passengers are sleeping on our way to EWR but I’m wide awake. Claude’s building an App for me…but this time is different — Claude is cranking away but I actually don’t know wh...
Ambiguity, Specificity, and Sunshine: How AI Exposes Clarity Gaps
AI doesn’t expose Intelligence or Skill gaps, rather it exposes Clarity gaps.
“The Models aren’t good enough yet” — I’ve heard this a bunch over the past year. The models are pretty darn good at this point. My team is shipping fully gener...
The 0.001x Engineer: Why Writing Less Code Creates More Impact
Pause with me a moment. Bow your heads in silence for we are gathered here today to lay a dear friend to rest…
What can you say in a moment like this? This was someone…we all looked up to.
I even aspired to be like them at one poi...
The Contrarian Agent: Why Making AI Fight with Itself Produces Better Output
I stole this idea from scientists. Not AI researchers—actual scientists. The ones with lab coats, peer review, and tenure battles.
Each member on a Research team plays a role. The Principal Investigator, the Statistician, the Literature Sp...
Burn the Boats! We're Never Going Back Again (...again)
Thanks to some incredible work by a very small team (RW, GL, NS I see you guys, thank you and congratulations) we’re about to ship a very cool integration with OpenAI (yes that OpenAI). This project started as a vibe-coded prototype I built...
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