How I restructured a 7-person team around AI tooling. Velocity numbers, cultural pitfalls, what worked.
A 7-person team shipping what a 16-person team shipped in 2022. Here's how.
AI doesn't replace engineers. It multiplies them. Juniors become mediors in months. Mediors become seniors in weeks. The leverage is asymmetric.
We stopped hiring for knowledge and started hiring for judgment. We stopped writing boilerplate and started writing architecture. Our velocity numbers went 3x; our hiring numbers stayed flat.
This talk walks through the exact changes we made to processes, onboarding, code review, and team structure.
A walkthrough of the state machine, audio pipeline, and fallback design I use for Chasyr.
When RAG actually beats fine-tuning, when it doesn't, and how to tell which one you need.
The exact prompts and CI workflows my team runs on every PR. Copy-paste, MIT licensed.
The boilerplate I clone for every new SaaS bet. Auth, billing, RLS, AI hooks pre-wired.
A guest lecture at COMSATS on how mid-career engineers can move into architecture roles.
Panel at AusFinTech 2026 - the legal, technical, and ethical scaffolding for AI that talks to customers.
A handful of titles - short list, opinionated commentary, no affiliate nonsense.
My exact dev stack - IDE, terminal, AI agents, productivity hacks. Updated quarterly.
Papers, blog posts, and talks I send every engineer I mentor on getting up to speed with AI.
Remote-friendly companies, visa sponsors, OSS scholarships - things I wish I had a decade ago.