Ross Harrison
@rharriso.bsky.social
For internal tools, working with customers right away is critical. But, only if you want to keep your job.
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Be Useful: Take a Product Approach with Internal Tools
Why internal tools should be treated like products—and how usefulness is the key to lasting impact and resilience in software teams.
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July 23, 2025 at 6:13 PM
For internal tools, working with customers right away is critical. But, only if you want to keep your job.
www.rharriso.com/posts/be-use...
www.rharriso.com/posts/be-use...
"Google Maps’ fuel-efficient routing feature has helped to prevent more than 2.9 million metric tons of GHG [greenhouse gas] emissions"
Irrelevant, I doubt Google Maps uses power hungry LLMs to route traffic.
I fail to see how LLMs will combat climate change.
news.mit.edu/2025/confron...
Irrelevant, I doubt Google Maps uses power hungry LLMs to route traffic.
I fail to see how LLMs will combat climate change.
news.mit.edu/2025/confron...
Confronting the AI/energy conundrum
The MIT Energy Initiative's annual research spring symposium explored artificial intelligence as both a problem and solution for the clean energy transition.
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July 20, 2025 at 2:42 AM
"Google Maps’ fuel-efficient routing feature has helped to prevent more than 2.9 million metric tons of GHG [greenhouse gas] emissions"
Irrelevant, I doubt Google Maps uses power hungry LLMs to route traffic.
I fail to see how LLMs will combat climate change.
news.mit.edu/2025/confron...
Irrelevant, I doubt Google Maps uses power hungry LLMs to route traffic.
I fail to see how LLMs will combat climate change.
news.mit.edu/2025/confron...
Does anyone think that $META 's strategy will pay off here? It seems very likely to me that this team will not align quickly.
At least there is some demand for this unlike the Metaverse money pit.
No problem with the people who took massive pay package.
www.theverge.com/command-line...
At least there is some demand for this unlike the Metaverse money pit.
No problem with the people who took massive pay package.
www.theverge.com/command-line...
Inside Mark Zuckerberg’s AI hiring spree
Meta’s CEO is spending big to catch up in the AI race.
www.theverge.com
July 13, 2025 at 10:35 PM
Does anyone think that $META 's strategy will pay off here? It seems very likely to me that this team will not align quickly.
At least there is some demand for this unlike the Metaverse money pit.
No problem with the people who took massive pay package.
www.theverge.com/command-line...
At least there is some demand for this unlike the Metaverse money pit.
No problem with the people who took massive pay package.
www.theverge.com/command-line...
Reading is a basic requirement for Engineering Managers. It helps you prepare for the challenges of management, develop empathy, and gain practical advice.
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Read Broadly: A Basic Requirement for Engineering Managers
Engineering management is a tricky profession. It requires technical knowledge, emotional intelligence, broad thinking, and communication skills. The transition to management can be tumultuous. Succes...
blog.rharriso.com
July 12, 2025 at 9:14 PM
Reading is a basic requirement for Engineering Managers. It helps you prepare for the challenges of management, develop empathy, and gain practical advice.
blog.rharriso.com/posts/read-b...
blog.rharriso.com/posts/read-b...
It's remarkable how many engineering managers fail to take the job seriously. A minimum commitment should be a sustained engagement with professional Literature.
Start with "The Manager's Path" from @skamille.themanagerswrath.com. Great practical advice, and broad guidance.
Start with "The Manager's Path" from @skamille.themanagerswrath.com. Great practical advice, and broad guidance.
The Manager's Path
Managing people is difficult wherever you work. But in the tech industry, where management is also a technical discipline, the learning curve can be brutal—especially when there are few tools, … - Se...
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July 12, 2025 at 6:25 PM
It's remarkable how many engineering managers fail to take the job seriously. A minimum commitment should be a sustained engagement with professional Literature.
Start with "The Manager's Path" from @skamille.themanagerswrath.com. Great practical advice, and broad guidance.
Start with "The Manager's Path" from @skamille.themanagerswrath.com. Great practical advice, and broad guidance.
Nothing terribly surprising in the underlying paper. The more expert the developer and the more complex the codebase, the less effective AI tools are.
Bootstrapping small projects is the best case scenario for these tools. After that the advantage deteriorates.
pivot-to-ai.com/2025/07/02/h...
Bootstrapping small projects is the best case scenario for these tools. After that the advantage deteriorates.
pivot-to-ai.com/2025/07/02/h...
How to pass an AI coding benchmark: train on the questions
SWE-Bench Verified by OpenAI tests how well a model can solve real bugs in real Python code from GitHub. These bugs are all public information — so the AI models have almost certainly trained on th…
pivot-to-ai.com
July 11, 2025 at 4:50 PM
Nothing terribly surprising in the underlying paper. The more expert the developer and the more complex the codebase, the less effective AI tools are.
Bootstrapping small projects is the best case scenario for these tools. After that the advantage deteriorates.
pivot-to-ai.com/2025/07/02/h...
Bootstrapping small projects is the best case scenario for these tools. After that the advantage deteriorates.
pivot-to-ai.com/2025/07/02/h...