Miguel David
@migueldavid.eu
Engineering Manager, former Site Reliability Engineer.
From 🇵🇹. through 🇩🇰🇮🇹🇬🇧🇭🇷. Currently in 🇧🇪.
From 🇵🇹. through 🇩🇰🇮🇹🇬🇧🇭🇷. Currently in 🇧🇪.
[With AI] Code like a surgeon. "When I sit down for a work session, I want to feel like a surgeon walking into a prepped operating room. Everything is ready for me to do what I’m good at."
Code like a surgeon
A lot of people say AI will make us all “managers” or “editors”…but I think this is a dangerously incomplete view!
www.geoffreylitt.com
November 24, 2025 at 4:05 PM
[With AI] Code like a surgeon. "When I sit down for a work session, I want to feel like a surgeon walking into a prepped operating room. Everything is ready for me to do what I’m good at."
Automation can be liberating.
November 20, 2025 at 4:05 PM
Automation can be liberating.
I built an NBA game recommender with Claude Code in 40 hours over 2.5 days
Learned: AI gets you to 80% fast, but that last 19% is still debugging HTTP at 2am, and I make terrible cost/benefit decisions.
It works though! Have a read or try: migueldavid.eu/posts/buildi...
Learned: AI gets you to 80% fast, but that last 19% is still debugging HTTP at 2am, and I make terrible cost/benefit decisions.
It works though! Have a read or try: migueldavid.eu/posts/buildi...
Building an NBA Game Recommender: A Study in Poor Time Management and AI - The writing outlet
NBA 🏀 has 82 games per season. 10 games some nights. Two hours each. I have two kids, a dog that needs walking, a house that needs cleaning and then...
migueldavid.eu
November 18, 2025 at 1:15 PM
I built an NBA game recommender with Claude Code in 40 hours over 2.5 days
Learned: AI gets you to 80% fast, but that last 19% is still debugging HTTP at 2am, and I make terrible cost/benefit decisions.
It works though! Have a read or try: migueldavid.eu/posts/buildi...
Learned: AI gets you to 80% fast, but that last 19% is still debugging HTTP at 2am, and I make terrible cost/benefit decisions.
It works though! Have a read or try: migueldavid.eu/posts/buildi...
Keeping up with AI's rapid evolution as a parent is challenging. To stay informed, I rely on Birgitta Bockeler's grounded insights, unlike the AI providers who want to sell something. leaddev.com/technical-di...
From autocomplete to agents: AI coding assistance state of play
Everybody wants high reliability, but the path isn't exactly clear. This talk is for people who need to know what works and what doesn't.
leaddev.com
November 17, 2025 at 4:05 PM
Keeping up with AI's rapid evolution as a parent is challenging. To stay informed, I rely on Birgitta Bockeler's grounded insights, unlike the AI providers who want to sell something. leaddev.com/technical-di...
Reposted by Miguel David
@buffer.com I've been a fan and user for many years, but this community new feature is awesome. Thanks for building it.
November 14, 2025 at 9:50 AM
@buffer.com I've been a fan and user for many years, but this community new feature is awesome. Thanks for building it.
Good podcast episode with Laura Tacho from DX about AI ROI
A Systems-Level Guide to High-ROI AI Impact w/ Laura Tacho #234
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pca.st
November 13, 2025 at 4:05 PM
Good podcast episode with Laura Tacho from DX about AI ROI
Councils of agents: group thinking with LLMs - a great idea from James Stanier
Councils of agents: group thinking with LLMs - The Engineering Manager
Improving your thinking is improving your output as a leader. Use agents to supercharge your thinking by building your own councils.
www.theengineeringmanager.com
November 10, 2025 at 4:05 PM
Councils of agents: group thinking with LLMs - a great idea from James Stanier
Tackle problems early on. It’s easier.
November 6, 2025 at 4:05 PM
Tackle problems early on. It’s easier.
@brusselsairlines.bsky.social cancelling a 1h30 flight from Berlin to your base in Brussels Zaventem hours before the flight during the night and not even warning via your app, is not ok. Also not ok, rerouting me to Cologne, then Munich and only then Brussels with 3 different carriers. 😖
November 5, 2025 at 8:21 AM
@brusselsairlines.bsky.social cancelling a 1h30 flight from Berlin to your base in Brussels Zaventem hours before the flight during the night and not even warning via your app, is not ok. Also not ok, rerouting me to Cologne, then Munich and only then Brussels with 3 different carriers. 😖
I wrote a very short fiction piece this morning. I hope you enjoy it. migueldavid.eu/posts/ubiqui...
Ubiquitous (a small fiction piece) - The writing outlet
The street is mostly people walking or on two wheels. All of them with a side electric engine, of course. You’re the one who chooses if you want effort and...
migueldavid.eu
November 3, 2025 at 4:05 PM
I wrote a very short fiction piece this morning. I hope you enjoy it. migueldavid.eu/posts/ubiqui...
Very interesting talk from James Barnes about the principles on how to best manage engineering teams in 2025.
November 3, 2025 at 2:46 PM
Very interesting talk from James Barnes about the principles on how to best manage engineering teams in 2025.
“Focus [and alignment] beats speed”.
November 3, 2025 at 2:30 PM
“Focus [and alignment] beats speed”.
First day of @leaddev.com Berlin. Excited to learn and meet other Engineering leaders. 🙂
November 3, 2025 at 7:39 AM
First day of @leaddev.com Berlin. Excited to learn and meet other Engineering leaders. 🙂
Very rambley talk, but hitting all the interesting spots of managing databases without slowing down the developers
How To Not Gatekeep The Database Safely Mali Akmanalp Hubspot
youtu.be
October 30, 2025 at 4:05 PM
Very rambley talk, but hitting all the interesting spots of managing databases without slowing down the developers
Something that has been on my mind a lot over the last few months is the near and medium-future impact of AI on jobs. Here is a well thought out podcast episode on “How not to lose your job to AI” pca.st/episode/0363...
October 27, 2025 at 4:08 PM
Something that has been on my mind a lot over the last few months is the near and medium-future impact of AI on jobs. Here is a well thought out podcast episode on “How not to lose your job to AI” pca.st/episode/0363...
“If you’re the one leading every single meeting, you’re either inexperienced, insecure, or haven’t been shown how to be a real manager yet.”
If You’re Running Every Meeting, You’re Failing Your Team | annotated by Miguel
There are a few exceptions. Sure, incidents.
readwise.io
October 23, 2025 at 3:07 PM
“If you’re the one leading every single meeting, you’re either inexperienced, insecure, or haven’t been shown how to be a real manager yet.”
The Next Abstraction
The Next Abstraction
Or, Why AI Is Not Replacing Us
sarahmei.substack.com
October 20, 2025 at 3:29 PM
The Next Abstraction
On the way to Ostende.
October 17, 2025 at 8:11 PM
On the way to Ostende.
Pumpkins in the Fall.
October 17, 2025 at 8:10 PM
Pumpkins in the Fall.
The park in the morning
October 17, 2025 at 8:10 PM
The park in the morning
The park in the morning
October 17, 2025 at 8:10 PM
The park in the morning