Billable Hours Are Dead. What Replaces Them?

When AI collapses execution time, the pricing model built on it breaks. The problem is that outcome-based pricing requires something most client…

May 19 • Willian Correa

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The Onboarding Problem Nobody Talks About

AI has taken over the small tasks that used to teach new engineers how a system works. Leaders who don't rebuild the learning function will find out in…

May 11 • Willian Correa

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What AI Exposed About Engineering Management

Behind the 'should EMs code?' debate, the data shows how the role actually changed and which managers got caught off guard.

May 7 • Willian Correa

April 2026

Tokenmaxxing Is the Budget Game, Played With AI Tokens

Silicon Valley's new productivity metric rewards consumption over outcomes. Anyone who's managed a fiscal year-end budget has seen this movie before.

Apr 27 • Willian Correa

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Platform Teams Forgot They Have Customers

Why most internal platforms look like catalogs of unused features, and the three metrics that force the conversation back to adoption.

Apr 23 • Willian Correa

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The Foreman Problem: Managing Teams When Your Best Worker Isn't Human

Every major technology shift invented a new kind of manager. AI is doing it again, and the job description doesn't exist yet.

Apr 22 • Willian Correa

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Ninety Percent of CEOs Say AI Changed Nothing. The Other Ten Percent Have a PR Team.

An NBER survey of 6,000 executives reveals a productivity gap that most boardrooms won't talk about honestly.

Apr 14 • Willian Correa

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Three Hundred Sixty Billion Dollars and Basically Zero

Big Tech's 2025 AI spending produced no measurable economic impact. The historical record says that's exactly what should happen.

Apr 8 • Willian Correa

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March 2026

AI Won't Lower Your Engineering Bar. Poor Adoption Will.

What nine recent studies reveal about code quality, delivery stability, and leadership accountability when engineering teams adopt AI coding tools.

Mar 31 • Willian Correa

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February 2026

Same goes for the popcorn

Value is judged where it’s consumed

Feb 13 • Willian Correa

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January 2026

Stop Asking How Not to Be Replaced by AI

The real question is whether you move from “producer” to “owner.”

Jan 26 • Willian Correa

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How to Talk to Your Skip Manager Without Going Around Your Manager

The default assumptions that keep people silent, what skip managers actually want, and how to use skip-level time to unblock work and grow

Jan 14 • Willian Correa

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