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Become an AI-Second Engineer

Everyone can generate code. Trusted engineers know what’s worth shipping, and use AI and mentors to build that judgment.

Sep 27 • Fran Soto

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

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

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

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

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

The Smallest Reliable Working Set

Bigger context windows won’t fix bad workflows. The real skill is deciding what an agent should load, forget, and persist.

May 24 • Fran Soto

I turned my calendar into an AI-powered time tracking system

I use an AI calendar agent to close blocks, tag work and life, and show the gap between my ideal week and reality

May 6 • Fran Soto

I Deleted Todoist. I Built This Instead

I replaced my task app with an AI agent. Here’s the system.

Apr 15 • Fran Soto

This is the exact blueprint to becoming a highly paid senior developer

Lack the organizational skills to get promoted? Discover how developers can use a RAG Matrix and AI to map daily coding tasks to career growth…

Apr 2 • Fran Soto

How to design a career that serves your life

Stop sacrificing your life for the corporate ladder. Learn how to rewrite your career goals and use a custom objective function to gain autonomy and…

Mar 18 • Fran Soto

Decision fatigue is killing software engineer's productivity, here is the cure

Software engineers: beat decision fatigue by separating planning from execution. Use the Autopilot Schedule to automate your routine and protect peak…

Feb 11 • Fran Soto

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