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All writing →Writing about CTO
4 posts
2025
The Gotcha Game That Drives Great Engineers Away
Most tech interviews are a game of gotcha that makes the interviewer feel clever and loses solid builders. The best interviewers are great conversationalists who listen.
How will we train junior developers in a world of generative AI?
Generative AI is delegation, not just abstraction. How do juniors build the judgement to use it well, and what should teams and employers change?
The Illusion of Democratized AI — And Why It Should Worry You
Training frontier models is structurally out of reach for all but a few hyperscalers. Why that concentration of compute is a strategic risk for everyone building on top.
Your real team as CTO
One of the biggest mistakes new CTOs make is thinking their team is still the tech team. Your real team is the executive team, and that changes how you spend your week.