Archive - Strategize Your Career

You Need a Think Week

A practical system for escaping busywork, rebuilding clarity, and making better engineering decisions without taking a full week off

Aug 30 • Fran Soto

Don’t Become a Proxy Between AI and Code

A zoom-in, zoom-out system for increasing AI-assisted coding throughput without losing the technical judgment needed to improve it

Aug 23 • Fran Soto

More Agents Won’t Fix Your Productivity

Productivity after AI is less about typing and more about these 4 principles

Aug 16 • Fran Soto

Do You Actually Understands Your Codebase?

AI agents can improve code while eroding the shared understanding teams need to debug, evolve, and defend it.

Aug 10 • Fran Soto

Faster AI Is Fragmenting Your Attention

A practical system for batching AI-assisted work, designing clean handoffs, and running multiple agents without multitasking yourself

Aug 2 • Fran Soto

July 2026

AI Wrote More Code. Who Reviews It?

My multi-agent AI code review system finds, verifies, and ranks issues before I open the pull request.

Jul 26 • Fran Soto

1000 PRs Won't Prove You're Promotion Ready

The artifact pipeline for turning designs, reviews, launches, and incidents into evidence your manager can defend.

Jul 19 • Fran Soto

AI setup for software engineers: My 5-part system

Project context, reusable skills, isolated workspaces, and evidence loops: the system I use to orchestrate coding agents.

Jul 12 • Fran Soto

What Is an AI Native Software Engineer?

Buying Cursor does not make you AI-native. The real skill is defining the context, tools, loops, and evidence that make agents reliable.

Jul 5 • Fran Soto

June 2026

Stop using AI as a chat box

Use AI for investigation, review, and QA reports, while keeping architecture, product risk, and ownership with the human.

Jun 28 • Fran Soto

This is for engineers falling behind on AI

Most teams do not need frontier AI. They need one safe workflow other engineers can copy.

Jun 21 • Fran Soto

Loop Engineering: Designing Systems That Prompt

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Jun 15 • Fran Soto

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