Software engineer. 30 years building things — from ZX 81 BASIC to AI-assisted development. Based in Madrid. Founded three; shipped in plenty more.
Trying to figure out what professional craft looks like when AI writes the code.
Software engineering, AI-assisted development, and what professional craft means now.
A safe AI chat companion for kids, 545 commits, 97%+ test coverage, and only 1.7% human-written code. The overview of the Kaze project and the beginning of a series on building production software with AI agents.
How code review changes when AI generates most of the code. What to focus on, what stays the same, and why professional judgment matters more than ever.
Been building software professionally since '95. Still love it. Still learning. Still arguing about the right way to do things.
Started when "web apps" were called "homepages." Founded 1uptalent, a dev shop that shipped things that work instead of writing docs nobody reads. Built and scaled at Workato, Boopos, Stuart, Jobandtalent.
"Like a chef who'd rather cook than talk about cooking. You'll find my opinions in what I build, not in slide decks."
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Software should embrace it.
I care about software that works, not pages of docs. About people building things, not specific processes. About ideas that might make someone's day better, or maybe change everything.
There's a difference between generating code until something works and knowing what to ask for. Craft still matters, even when AI does the typing.
When the plan stops making sense, throw it out. The goal is shipping, not following a dead process.
The internet is full of 101 content. I write about the actual problems that don't have clean answers, the stuff that separates pros from amateurs.
// These are the ideas I'm building around, writing about, and sometimes screwing up in public.
Life beyond the terminal.
There's something meditative about the rhythm of regularity rallies, where consistency matters more than speed.
Mountain air and carving down a slope. Pure escape from screens and code.
What worked, what didn't, and the weird issues I've hit building a smarter home. Read the full manifesto.
Thinking out loud with other developers. Some talks, some roundtables, always learning something.
Panel on what actually works with AI in day-to-day development. Code reviews, workflows, how it changes teams.
Custom Webpack setup in Rails without the rails/webpacker gem. Lessons learned from Jobandtalent's frontend tooling.
The spectrum between 'I'm just a programmer' and 'I'm the architect, I don't need to code'. Finding balance.
Early Docker adoption and containerization strategies for development teams.