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Hi,
I'm a software engineer from Sicily, currently based in the UK. I build developer platforms: build systems, CI, monorepos, and tooling that lets teams ship with less friction.
I'm interested in how AI is changing software engineering, and I have a YouTube channel where I share my opinions on it.
Opinions are my own.
Writing
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Highlights and notes from the Fable/Mythos System Card
TL;DR: I turned Anthropic’s docs and system cards into an e-book for my Kobo. Here I share my notes and comments, mostly on interpretability. One of the small projects that I wouldn’t have ever done without automatic ...
My "Rally Adventure" one-shot game, made with Opus 5 medium thinking
TL;DR: I gave Claude Opus a single prompt asking for an off-road driving game with a retro Screamer Rally look, and let it fan out sub-agents. A few hours later I had Rally Adventure: Three.js, TypeScript and Rapier, ...
Agency must stay with humans: AI velocity risks outpacing programmers' understanding
TL;DR: As AI evolves from writing syntax to autonomous planning, the sheer quantity of generated code is outpacing our ability to comprehend it. We are moving from creators to curators, risking a future where human ag...
How Nx "pulled the rug" on us, a potential solution and lessons learned
TL;DR: Nx deprecated custom task runners. I built portable-nx-cache, a MIT licensed drop-in Go binary that provides remote caching via your CI’s filesystem cache. One of my responsibilities at my current job is mainta...
YouTube
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The future (or lack thereof) of software engineering jobs
In this video I discuss the ongoing (and upcoming) changes to software engineering careers. I try to give a balanced approach and at the end I share some personal thoughts on how I cope with this.
Hugging Face incident, agent sandboxes and permissions
My thoughts on the recent Hugging Face incident, and some reflection on agent/harnesses sandboxes and permission modes.
Dependency management and red teaming in the agentic era
A few things that companies must do, in platform engineering and cyber security, to be prepared to face the increasing threats posed by the agentic era.