These are the results of the poll; people speak! newsletter.optimistengineer.com/p/do-you-nee...

Confirmed: Laura Tacho (@lauratacho.com ) will deliver the keynote for The Pragmatic Summit on how AI+coding agents are changing engineering productivity. 11 Feb 2026, SF. Laura is one the top experts on AI + developer productivity: no fluff, just things that work, and things that don't (cont'd)

This Wednesday we celebrated the community farewell event of the Google for Startups Campus.

You need to define a way of working so your team can release their applications, libraries, and frameworks quickly. newsletter.optimistengineer.com/p/building-a...

Open AI is hiring folks... 449 open positions all over the world 🤯🤦🏽‍♂️

Trying the Antigravity editor now, in the free edition. First feelings: like Cursor but free Nice!

Do you write blog posts, documentation, or anything for software engineers? Do you want to? Join us for the Writing for Developers book club with @overcommitted.dev, officially kicking off now! 🚀 Chapters 1+2 now, first discussion Friday. Join us in Discord to chat about it: discord.gg/d9gZyYuqKd

Want to keep up with what is happening in the software community? There's a starter pack for that! go.bsky.app/AnM2t7r

In a couple of hours, I will send my last email for this year 2025. Building a Product Platform Engineering Team In today’s email, I go one step beyond, and you will learn the technical principles on which a Product Platform Engineering Team should be based.

Arrancamos una comunidad técnica de IA en Madrid. Ya tenemos un primer evento organizado para 2026. Contaremos con @carloslopez.bsky.social Nos hablará de su experiencia escalando un sistema de IA para transcripciones de citas médicas, con lo que eso implica a nivel técnico y de compliance madai.es

Do you book dedicated time in your Sprints for refactoring? Or you do as you implement new features? newsletter.optimistengineer.com/p/the-hidden...

The problem is you have too many dependencies in you application. newsletter.optimistengineer.com/p/the-hidden...

Si te gusta la navidad y te apetece disfrutarla en #asturias esto te interesa 👇🏽 open.substack.com/pub/ruralpre...

⚡️ ⚡️ En dicembre toca: ¡lightning talks! Temas tan variados como datos, startups, cloud o reprogramación de humanos (¿podemos pensar como una máquina?) 📆 Viernes 19 de diciembre ⏰ 18:30 a 20:30 📍 Talud de la Ería, Oviedo Apuntate aqui👇 buff.ly/bdwEx94

Anthropic is donating MCP to the Linux Foundation, making it a founding project of the Agentic AI Foundation (AAIF). This strengthens open, shared standards so AI tools and agents can work together more transparently. Read more: www.anthropic.com/news/donatin... #OpenSource #AI #AgenticAI

Are any of you suffering this? newsletter.optimistengineer.com/p/the-hidden...

👉🏼 This has a problem: It slows you down for reaching production for every single change you implement. newsletter.optimistengineer.com/p/the-hidden...

Do you feel that testing your application is difficult? newsletter.optimistengineer.com/p/the-hidden...

It's time to save your knowledge. newsletter.optimistengineer.com/p/how-to-kee... Have a great Sunday! 🍂🍁🌰❄️

We need a bit of optimism nowadays

Ah, Bunny CDN: Thank you @behzad-abd.bsky.social bsky.app/profile/behz...

Internet is down again… because Cloudflare is down

Damn half the internet is down again - including Downdetector Downdetector is multi-region but has a singular dependency on Cloudflare Is Cloudflare down again?

Ciencia y docencia también 😉

You accumulate a lot of knowledge, why losing it when you change to another company? newsletter.optimistengineer.com/p/how-to-kee...

This happened to me newsletter.optimistengineer.com/p/how-to-kee...

Enjoyed this! Dabbled with SDD for both big & small features - I definitely get more value from the latter

I just submitted to present at #ATmosphereConf ! This is an awesome opportunity to share your unique perspective with the community. The CFP is here: news.atmosphereconf.org/3m6z2b7ovyk2...

🤔 Do you have one single implementation? newsletter.optimistengineer.com/p/do-you-nee...

📜 ¿Qué es Spec Driven Development? ainativebrujula.substack.com

Spec-Driven Development: Is it a good idea? Trying to resolve ambiguity in software development ainativecompass.substack.com/p/spec-drive...

Coding, Coding, coding,... Do you really need that interface? newsletter.optimistengineer.com/p/do-you-nee...

Aprendiendo AI Native en Español 👇🏽 ainativebrujula.substack.com/p/de-cloud-n... #ainative

When the team lacks skills newsletter.optimistengineer.com/p/incrementa...

An incremental architecture is an architecture designed to grow. And why this is something you should care of? 👇🏽 newsletter.optimistengineer.com/p/incrementa...

This is a fact 👇🏽 newsletter.optimistengineer.com/p/incrementa... #softwareengineering #architecture

Cross-functional teams deliver faster than layered organizations because each team owns a domain end-to-end. No waiting for “the backend team” or “the frontend team” to free up a sprint. newsletter.optimistengineer.com/p/incrementa...

People leave companies because: 🟢 Money 🟢 Stability 🟢 Work respect Fruits, candies, retro-game machine, and apéros after work are just smoke bombs. newsletter.optimistengineer.com/p/how-can-yo...

How beautiful it is when you build an app with different modules, perfectly separated and communicated via events... 👩🏽‍💻 🧡 🍂🍁🌰

Sorry, but creating incremental architectures in software is not so hard, look at this 👇🏽 newsletter.optimistengineer.com/p/incrementa... #software #architecture #leadership

New fork of Visual Studio Code, this time, coming from Google Did someone already try it? antigravity.google

Folks, I've just published another learning about how to make software Architectures Incremental. I would love to hear your thoughts about it 👇🏽 newsletter.optimistengineer.com/p/incrementa... #software #architecture #TechLead

Folks around, did you suffer the hit because of the Cloudflare outage? Looking forward to the full analysis from @gergely.pragmaticengineer.com on this 😅

In this email, I just wanted to make a heads-up about Crossplane, a technology that solves a real and important problem that the majority of us suffer from every day: 👉🏼 Not owning our infrastructure. newsletter.optimistengineer.com/p/enabling-d... #crossplane #kubernetes

Ok, here it is: ATProto blog posts collection - I collected a lot of interesting blog posts about Bluesky/ATProto things written since 2023* by the team & the community, and put them in one list grouped into sections (there's even a quick search field at the top): (*) one even earlier

Tomorrow is Wednesday, and your inbox knows it. A new episode on the Incremental Architectures: 👉🏼 Incremental Architecture: What You Really Need To Know Subscribe now and receive it tomorrow directly in your inbox 📥👇🏻 open.substack.com/pub/optimist...

Gemini 3 leak shows solid gains on math, vision, and SimpleQA Sonnet still ahead on SWE-bench though, while Gemini takes TerminalBench Nice to see models getting better at different things

El problema que te resuelve este post es el de: 👉🏼 Saber cuáles son los prompts que funcionan en tu organización. ainativebrujula.substack.com/p/de-caos-a-... #prompt #ainative #softwareengineering