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My vibe coding experience

I never expected to be the guy defending AI-assisted coding. People know me as the purist UNIX person who configures everything by hand, controls every part of my stack, and doesn’t let anything touch my code unless I understand it line by line and, honestly, that’s still true.

I Became a Christian

I don't know where to begin. Those who know me from earlier in my life know me as an atheist, someone who doesn't believe in the existence of God. Only facts, science, things we can prove, quantify, and observe, not someone watching us from above like

I finally returned to the stage

God was very generous with me this past 2025. Not only he gave me a community of people who has been helping me grow and supporting me in many ways, a new job that lets me spend time at home with my family and new friends, he also gave me

Consulting Chronicles: The Day I Had to be an Asshole

Those who have worked with me know I’m super calm. I rarely lose my cool, I always try to crack a joke, and I genuinely appreciate people who surface issues early instead of playing "hide the blocker". Projects are already complex enough, the last thing anyone needs

I didn't write that much this year... here's why

It hurts a little to see that, counting this one, I only published three articles this year. It’s not that I didn’t have time to write. It’s that everything in tech, especially in AI, has been moving so fast that my thoughts seemed to change every week.

Introducing Thirdparty

Building software is hard. Sure, AI has made it easier in many ways, but it’s still a complex, messy process. And to make things more interesting, most software doesn’t live in isolation, it often talks to other systems. Sometimes those are your own and you can control them,

Consulting Chronicles: I rarely know what I'm doing

I spent over 10 years in the tech industry, building software products and solutions for customers, before I moved into consulting a couple of years ago, when I joined BCGX. You’d think that after 10+ years of building stuff, I’d know most of what there is to know—

Top 5 most read from 2024

This year came with many nice surprises and other not-so-nice ones, but those are stories to be told on 2025. In general, 2024 is a year I have many reasons to be grateful for, one of those is that I had more time to write than other past years as

Integration testing is hard

If we think about the testing pyramid, at the very bottom we have Unit Testing, this is the most basic testing mechanism, in theory, we can think of our code in terms of Units, a Unit is the smallest piece of code to test, it can be a function, a

Ay!, A.I.

There has been a lot of noise around Artificial Intelligence since around November / December 2023. Specially revolving around the new Generative Artificial Intelligence (abbreviated GenAI) technology that seems to have a mind of its own and being able to chat almost like a human, generate images from a short text

Software Engineering: more than only coding

At work, a while ago, my Engineering Manager asked me to start sharing my knowledge with the rest of the team more often. Of course, we do code reviews and we have some other ways to get the knowledge spread across the team, we have a wiki on confluence, we

The Human Component of DevOps: Conway's Law

I've been part of large and small DevOps implementations, none of them were particularly painful regardless of the size of the team. Everyone seemed open to change and seasoned about best practices in software development, simple and efficient solutions seemed to work perfectly in an elegant orchestrated puzzle

Which languages should I learn?

There are millions of articles and blog posts out there trying to tell you what to learn next or which language or technologies are worth your attention, things like Top 10 programming languages or Learn one of these languages and you’ll be done with some statistics about language popularity

API design is still relevant

I think it's a general issue with us, Engineers, we tend to think everyone sees the world through our same lens. I am one of those who think certain topics are common sense: look both sides before crossing the street, git push before going home and design your