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The AI Budget Reckoning
Why the way we budget for AI is broken, and how to fix it.
Jul 2
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Andre Nobre
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Faster Code, Slower Teams
AI didn't save the time. It moved it.
Jun 24
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Andre Nobre
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The Job That AI Can't Do (Yet)
What engineering management actually means when code gets cheap.
Jun 15
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Andre Nobre
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Foundations #4: The Accidental Standard
How a weekend project from 2004 became the language of the AI era.
Jun 8
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Andre Nobre
Foundations #3: The Rise of Virtualization
An idea born in the 1960s that made the cloud possible.
Oct 12, 2025
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Andre Nobre
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Building Better Interview Processes: Lessons From the Candidate’s Side
Lessons from over twenty interviews across startups, scale-ups, and big tech — and what they reveal about how companies value people.
Oct 6, 2025
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Andre Nobre
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Foundations #2: The Birth of REST
How Roy Fielding’s 2000 dissertation reshaped the web by embracing its constraints.
Sep 29, 2025
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Andre Nobre
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The Disappearing Skill: Why Intuition Still Matters in an AI World
How the rise of AI is threatening the experience we need to build intuition, and what we can do about it.
Sep 21, 2025
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Andre Nobre
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