My creative team's latest AI music video for Saindra is a love story set across diverse historical periods in Mexico. Awesome work by YULLS + SUSSIE

Anyone know of a secret incantation that will get Mac OS Sequioa to stop prompting me to install Tahoe every single day? Fuck you Apple, I don't want to upgrade to your stupid candy ass bubble glass bullshit!

Patterns of Application Development Using AI by Obie Fernandez is the featured course on the Leanpub homepage! @obie #Ai #SoftwareArchitecture #RubyOnRails Unlock the power of AI in your applications with this groundbreaking course on AI-driven application architecture. Discover

Join me for the Thursday morning keynote at SF Ruby Conference on November 20th. I'll be sharing my thoughts on the Ruby AI ecosystem, including a rundown of what's made the most difference in how I deliver software this year. https://t.co/Vj9JXwnNNA

Trying this out. Got to the subscription screen and did sign up for $2.99/month, however had a kind of reaction I've never had before which is: "hmm, I might vibe this for myself so that I can add alerts on all my other devices around the house"

How can Bryan not be an inspiration to anyone trying to live their best?? I'm serious. A gem of a human being in such a cynical world.

WHAT I REALLY NEED AND WILL PAY GOOD MONEY FOR!!! 3 minutes after I have not connected to a Google Meet on my calendar, every single connected device on my person or in my house begins to make very loud annoying noises. Why does this not exist? Am I the only one?

Whipped up a blog post describing how I'm experimenting with the new SwarmSDK by my talented colleague @parrudanet https://t.co/fw52QB7nIx #AgenticAI

Over the years, I’ve given the same advice to hundreds of startup founders and hiring managers: 👉 Hire half the people you think you need. 👉 Keep the same budget. 👉 Pay those people double. It sounds radical, but it’s how you build elite teams. The problem is, almost no

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So yeah — hire half the people you think you need. Keep the same budget. Pay double. And let AI handle the rest.

The uncomfortable truth: That $250K “senior” engineer everyone’s trying to hire is actually worth $500K now. And that’s still cheap compared to what a 3-person team costs!

This isn’t theory. It’s what smart orgs will look like in the AI era — small, senior, hyper-leveraged. Meanwhile, everyone else will still be hiring “just enough” mid-levels to stay busy, not productive.

So now the equation looks like this: Hire half as many people. Pay them double. Equip them with AI agents. Now you’ve got a 10× team with fewer coordination headaches!

Here’s where AI coding agents flip the script. They easily make great engineers 2×–5× more productive. That means one elite $500K engineer can now handle the workload of a small team.

And there’s a subtler reason most people miss: Fewer people means fewer workstreams. For some orgs, that’s scary. They think more people automatically means more progress. (It doesn’t. Ever heard of The Mythical Man Month?)

The legit reason: it’s hard to hire that caliber of person. The best senior engineers are always employed, well-treated, and not looking. Dislodging them takes either a world-class mission or a life-changing offer.

The dumb reason: ego. Many startup founders and hiring managers just don’t want to pay someone more than themselves. And/or they’d rather build a big team than a great one. Their actions prove it!

But almost nobody does it. Why? Because they can’t stomach paying an engineer $500K when they “budgeted” for $250K. Even if that engineer will outperform two or three $250K engineers combined.

Here’s a piece of advice I’ve given founders and hiring managers for years: 👉 Hire half the people you think you need. 👉 Keep the same budget. 👉 Pay those people double. That’s how you build elite teams.