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What Happens After You Find the Foreman
What the role actually looks like in practice, and why the job description you're imagining is probably wrong
Jun 30
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Willian Correa
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Discord's Voice Outage Started With a Dependency Nobody Mapped
A circular dependency survived every test, review, and deployment gate. Then it took down voice services platform-wide. The pattern is familiar.
Jun 23
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Willian Correa
2
Supply Chain Attacks Bypassed Every Trust Signal We Built
When the May 2026 TanStack compromise produced validly-attested malicious packages, it exposed a gap between what provenance proves and what security…
Jun 16
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Willian Correa
1
Service Boundaries Should Follow Team Boundaries
What I learned splitting and un-splitting a service nobody fully owned, and the six questions I now bring to architecture reviews.
Jun 9
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Willian Correa
2
The Title Convergence Problem
Staff Engineer and Engineering Manager stopped being different jobs at senior levels. The things that still differ are decision authority, blast radius…
Jun 2
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Willian Correa
2
May 2026
The Two-Person Team Is a Fantasy
AI tooling raised the ceiling on shipping speed. The minimum viable team for production work is still three or four.
May 26
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Willian Correa
2
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
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Willian Correa
2
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
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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
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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
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Willian Correa
2
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
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Willian Correa
2
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
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Willian Correa
3
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