Sorry folks, I'm on vacation and disconnected from technology. Back in September sharing more learning about technical leadership, software, and AI Native.
Marcos F. Lobo
@marcosflobo.com
👨🏽💻 Senior Software Engineer & Tech Lead 🌌 Former CERN 📰 https://optimistengineer.com
``` You've hit your individual spend limit · run /usage-credits to ask your admin for a higher limit Your admin can enable extra usage at claude.ai/admin-settings/usage. ``` That will replace the whale in my nightmares!
Simpsons Sea Captain: I Hate The Sea
ALT: Simpsons Sea Captain: I Hate The Sea
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Bought a new Dyson fan, set it up connected to the Wifi, and then it suddenly turned off for minutes, unable to turn back on. Turns out, it was spontaneously updating itself. This is not how a household appliance should update, I’m sorry… why do we accept such sloppiness?
Should you use an AWS ALB or an API Gateway for your MCP auth flow? Both have clear trade-offs depending on connection types, persistent HTTP sessions, and transport specs. optimistengineer.substack.com/p/building-a...
Building an Enterprise MCP Platform - Vol. III: Ironclad Access & Security
Tackling the critical challenges of authentication, authorization, and secure governance for internal AI protocol servers at scale.
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Friday Developers Fun 🤣 Junior dev vs. senior dev, release day. #developers #softwareengineering #meme #fridayhumor
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Careers - Technosylva
A Culture of Engagement Technosylva is an equal opportunity employer and values diversity.All qualified applicants will be considered without regard to legally protected characteristics.
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Losing top engineers to higher offers is tough. Beyond compensation, what non-monetary strategies genuinely help you retain your best talent and cultivate an environment where they choose to stay? #TechLeadership #TalentRetention #CareerDevelopment
Gals/guys, in the last 3 episodes of my newsletter, I tell you how to enable MCP Servers in the real world. That's coming from my own experience building the platform described there. Here you go 🧵👇🏻
Folks, my last episode about how to enable MCP Servers in the real world is out of the oven 👇🏻 newsletter.optimistengineer.com/p/building-a...
Building an Enterprise MCP Platform - Vol. III: Ironclad Access & Security
Tackling the critical challenges of authentication, authorization, and secure governance for internal AI protocol servers at scale.
newsletter.optimistengineer.com
If you were to remove half of those tools tomorrow… would you know which ones the developers would ask for? ainativecompass.substack.com/p/adoption-o...
Adoption of SKILLS, MCPs and AI agents
A practical model to understand which MCPs, skills and agents generate real impact in engineering teams
ainativecompass.substack.com
Tienes que poder distinguir las herramientas que se usan de las que solo están instaladas. ainativebrujula.substack.com/p/adopcion-d...
Adopción de SKILLs, MCPs y agentes de IA
Un modelo práctico para entender cuáles son los MCPs, skills y agentes que generan impacto real en equipos de ingeniería
ainativebrujula.substack.com
How to automate the lifecycle of your MCP servers and establish a seamless pipeline from a developer's repository straight to production. newsletter.optimistengineer.com/p/building-a...
Building an Enterprise MCP Platform - Vol. II: Zero-Friction Delivery
How to automate the lifecycle of your MCP servers and establish a seamless pipeline from a developer's repository straight to production.
newsletter.optimistengineer.com
Hoy llegamos al último día del programa Softlanding. 🚀 Gracias a la formación y mentoría de Nazareth Rodrigañez, CEO de Tetuan Valley, hemos cerrado un proceso lleno de aprendizaje, crecimiento y conexiones clave para nuestro ecosistema emprendedor.
Folks, I'm building a platform for developers to make their MCP Servers available to their users. One of the main decisions I had to make was 👉🏼 how the MCP Servers should be deployed?
Don't know if you have the same feeling as me about that all YouTube/blog-post about setting up AI MCP servers are too simple, nothing about how use then in real production
If your systems are not stable, understandable, & maintainable, you will not create real value for your customers, because even if the product looks good from the outside, the internals will keep creating friction, uncertainty, & avoidable risk newsletter.optimistengineer.com/p/how-to-shi...
How to ship software with confidence - The Pillars
The pillars for making releases without feeling like you're gambling with a coin every Friday afternoon.
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Las herramientas de IA que estas construyendo, ¿se están utilizando de verdad? ainativebrujula.substack.com/p/adopcion-d...
Adopción de SKILLs, MCPs y agentes de IA
Un modelo práctico para entender cuáles son los MCPs, skills y agentes que generan impacto real en equipos de ingeniería
ainativebrujula.substack.com
The biggest mistake when measuring AI tooling adoption is staying at the surface level. Knowing that your team uses Claude Code or Cursor isn't enough
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Interestingly, Anthropic uses a traditional 2-pizza cross-functional team structure. 5-8 engineers, EM, PM, and designer as part of the team. With the important difference. Every Software Engineer is expected to be a Tech Lead if needed.
"Coding used to be like building a building - all planning and structure. Now it feels more like shaping pottery: rough it out, then refine it again and again until you're happy." Brittany on how AI changed the way she builds. New Overcommitted out now!
I've just been told that Claude Sonnet 5 is out. Does anyone know if as expensive as Fable 5 was? www.anthropic.com/news/claude-...
Introducing Claude Sonnet 5
Our most agentic Sonnet yet, with top-tier intelligence for coding and everyday professional work.
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¡Final de la T4! (148 secciones 😱) Dedicado a los problemas con las reventas de entradas, por si este verano te planteas ir de concierto :). Quizá haya una T5 en Septiembre, quizá no...¡a ver si este verano recupero lo suficiente para seguir! youtu.be/zhkXYhcIE3U IVOOX: go.ivoox.com/rf/176419514
[T4.35] 🎟️🎟️ Cómo ir a la reventa de entradas y que a tu cartera no le den arcadas
YouTube video by Previniendo ciberfraudes con José Manuel Redondo
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User here. I want static graphs, I don't want an AI assistant to decide which hallucination is important, nor do I want AI shills telling businesses to lock out people that don't want to use AI.
Users no longer want the data owner to decide what is important to them through a static graph. They want to use their own AI assistants to access personalized information and gain real-time insights. ainativecompass.substack.com/p/displaying...
Displaying Information in AI Native Mode
Why ceasing to build closed visualizations is the first step to enabling the true potential of AI agents in your organization
ainativecompass.substack.com
Q: Would you like to have an AI Agent (like Claude Code or Cursor) to obtain information and insights whenever you want? A: guess what... 👇🏽 ainativecompass.substack.com/p/displaying...
Displaying Information in AI Native Mode
Why ceasing to build closed visualizations is the first step to enabling the true potential of AI agents in your organization
ainativecompass.substack.com