The Optimist Engineer
Marcos F. Lobo \ud83d\uddfb\ud83e\udded, JuliaExperiences, learnings, and inspiration about Software Engineering, Technical Leadership, and Technical Growth, with a bit of optimism. Interesting for Tech Leads and software makers from Startups to medium-sized companies.
| Platform |  | Pricing | Only free issues | Publishes | Weekly |
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[The A-Side] The AI Stack, Part 1: Building Product-First (#169)
Are you building AI products but feeling lost in the endless noise of new frameworks, hype, and technical terms?
If you are a Software Engineer or Tech Lead and you are looking for a clear mental model to navigate the modern AI engineering...
[The A-Side] Why you should stop giving your company unpaid overtime (#168)
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[The A-Side] The SPDD Workflow: From Story to Code (#167)
The industry is selling you a pretty convincing story about AI coding assistants.
Give them a two-line requirement, they say, and AI will take care of the rest: architecture, code, tests, the lot. But what happens when generating code beco...
[The A-Side] A Guide to SPDD: What is SPDD? Prompts as First-Class Artefacts (#166)
The industry is selling you a massive lie about AI coding assistants.
They want you to believe that typing code faster automatically equals shipping products faster.
But local speed rarely translates to global throughput… unless you have...
[The A-Side] From Junior to Tech Lead: Act Like the Role Before You Get the Title (#165)
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Welcome to this very first issue of The Optimist Engineer with the new format.
How many times have you been fed the lie that growing in tech is just a matter of accumulating years of experience?
The truth is that waiting quietly in...
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Senior Software Engineer and Tech Lead with 20+ years of experience. Currently building a SaaS product on a cloud-based microservices architecture. Previously worked at CERN managing OpenStack services in the IT CLOUD group.
I show teams how to think about multilingual AI infrastructure.
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