Gustavo Franco

Not enough CTOs are talking about how they are practically putting AI codgen and agents into their existing large teams of SWEs: tools, training, and culture. Here’s a few things we’re doing: - ripping down everyone’s egos about what can and can’t be done by whom (ai or human) - allocating budget to experiments - getting legal, infosec, and ops simplified and aligned early - focused slack channel to share wins, fails, and asks - 1 motivated sponsor per tool - use it or lose it access - calling on peers for use cases and learning - ai transparency (no one pretends they’re not using a tool to do work) What’s working: - ChatGPT in non tech functions - v0 for prototyping - cursor in pockets - copilot in pockets - chatPRD for engineers What’s not - 8 million rogue meeting note takers - think we’re underusing perplexity - no formal l&d - only a few pushing novel thinking - minimal automations & agent work

if I was Humane and actually understood marketing, I’d review the wallpaper app

We are looking for platform eng and SRE folks in CA and WA (various levels both IC and Mgr). DM me if you are interested. BMaaS, Kubernetes, Slurm, low level CSP infra services, turnup/deploy and break/fix automation Running ML and GenAI systems not required but a nice to have.

Look at United’s response. This is why companies should pay more to get social media managers with judgment and good instincts. What a missed opportunity by United. They had MKBHD in the comments, interested in their big Starlink announcement…and they whiffed it. Would’ve been so easy to say, “200 mbps for downloads! Slower for uploads but try it with your next video and let us know what you think” or whatever. Anything other than the lazy and patronizing non-answer they went with, which encapsulates everything people hate about dealing with airlines. Oh, and the link doesn’t even give the answer. It takes you to the United Airlines corporate newsroom, where you then have to click to the blog post in question, wherein the speed is not included among the “deets.”

Holy sh*t...

Not so good