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Marcos F. Lobo

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Software Engineer & Tech Lead, former @cern. 🎙️📰The Optimist Engineer https://newsletter.optimistengineer.com. Science is the answer.

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Marcos F. Lobo @marcosflobo.bsky.social · Nov 23

👋🏼 Marcos here and I love these topics:

✳️ Software Engineering
✳️ Technical Leadership
✳️ Technical Growth

I help you to be better on those topics here down 👇

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All with a bit of optimism 🌱

#softwareengineering #leadership #growth #optimistengineer

The Optimist Engineer | Marcos F. Lobo | Substack

Experiences, learnings, and inspiration about Software Engineering, Technical Leadership, and Technical Growth, with a bit of optimism. Interesting for Tech Leads and software makers from Startups to ...

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Marcos F. Lobo @marcosflobo.bsky.social · 2h

Should we move the Specs provided by Product team into the Git repository of the application that will solve the specs?

Is it the end of flooding with Confluence pages?

ainativecompass.substack.com/p/good-pract...

Good practices creating AGENTS.md

And a template for you to make your own AGENTS.md

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Gelbros J3 @bruto-mecanico.bsky.social · 8h

“Doc, ¿qué nos ocurre en el futuro? ¿Nos volvemos gilipollas o algo parecido?” probablemente sean las líneas de diálogo más lúcidas y proféticas de la historia del cine.

a group of people standing in front of a car with one wearing a blindfold

Alt: Christopher Lloyd como el doctor Emmett Brown, Michael J. Fox como Marty McFly y Claudia Wells como Jennifer Parker en Regreso al futuro (Robert Zemeckis, 1985).

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Marcos F. Lobo @marcosflobo.bsky.social · 10h

La gente me dice esto mismo 👇🏽

Teniendo archivos de tipo AGENTS.md para los agentes de IA te ahorrarás idas y venidas interactuando con tu asistente de código a la hora de implementar software.

ainativebrujula.substack.com/p/buenas-pra...

Buenas practicas para crear AGENTS.md

Y una plantilla para que te hagas tus propios AGENTS.md

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Marcos F. Lobo @marcosflobo.bsky.social · 10h

Folks are saying this is becoming real 👇🏽

Having AGENTS.mf files for AI agents will save you a lot of back-and-forth when interacting with your code assistant while implementing software.

ainativecompass.substack.com/p/good-pract...

Good practices creating AGENTS.md

And a template for you to make your own AGENTS.md

ainativecompass.substack.com

Marcos F. Lobo @marcosflobo.bsky.social · 10h

☝🏼 Somehow, you managed to find time to work on other initiatives, outside of your team, that helped others.

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#softwareengineering #leadership #TechLead

How to Become a Staff Engineer: 5 Signals That Matter

Concrete behaviours and evidence you can start building this sprint.

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Marcos F. Lobo @marcosflobo.bsky.social · 20h

La verdad es que la primera vez que leo ese palabro, y personalmente me parece un artilugio para que la gente pierda el foco en el fondo de la cuestión: despiden a 600 personas.

Es un impacto sobre:
1. 600 vidas
2. +600 personas que están relacionadas con las personas despedidas

Marcos F. Lobo @marcosflobo.bsky.social · 23h

¡Y en español!

Marcos F. Lobo @marcosflobo.bsky.social · 23h

👉🏼 Mejora tus interacciones con los agentes de IA.

Suscríbete antes del lunes 27 de octubre a Brújula AI Native y obtén gratis un prompt para crear AGENTS.md y ahorrar horas de “idas y venidas” con los agentes de IA para que implementen el código que tú quieres.

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Brújula AI Native | Marcos F. Lobo 🗻🧭 | Substack

De Cloud Native a AI Native. Click to read Brújula AI Native, by Marcos F. Lobo 🗻🧭, a Substack publication. Launched 3 months ago.

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Marcos F. Lobo @marcosflobo.bsky.social · 23h

👉🏼 Improve your interactions with the AI Agents.

Subscribe before Monday, October 27, to the AI Native Compass and get, for free, a prompt that will create a powerful AGENTS.md that will save hours of back and forth for the AI Agents to write the code as you want!

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AI Native Compass | Marcos F. Lobo 🗻🧭 | Substack

From Cloud Native to AI Native. Click to read AI Native Compass, by Marcos F. Lobo 🗻🧭, a Substack publication. Launched 3 months ago.

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Marcos F. Lobo @marcosflobo.bsky.social · 1d

Bonito palabro... suena a frase de ChatGPT

Marcos F. Lobo @marcosflobo.bsky.social · 1d

Mis equipos están experimentando justo eso y me gustaría oír más opiniones al respecto.

Si no sabéis de qué os hablo, echad un vistazo aquí

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#agenticai #ai #ia #intelligenciaartificial

Marcos F. Lobo @marcosflobo.bsky.social · 1d

Si desarrollas aplicaciones y tienes la suerte de poder usar un agente de IA con tu editor favorito, tienes que probar el uso de AGENTS.md.

Con un simple archivo, el ping pong con la IA se reduce dramáticamente.

Marcos F. Lobo @marcosflobo.bsky.social · 1d

5️⃣ You appeared and showed up in cross-Engineering meetings and discussions

newsletter.optimistengineer.com/p/how-to-bec...

#softwaredevelopment #leadership #techlead #StaffEngineer

How to Become a Staff Engineer: 5 Signals That Matter

Concrete behaviours and evidence you can start building this sprint.

newsletter.optimistengineer.com

Marcos F. Lobo @marcosflobo.bsky.social · 1d

3️⃣ You implemented solutions to problems impacting the Engineering organization

4️⃣ You proposed and led experiments and edge initiatives

Marcos F. Lobo @marcosflobo.bsky.social · 1d

Five points that will put you in the doors of promotion:

1️⃣ You delivered your commitments

2️⃣ You worked outside of your team

Marcos F. Lobo @marcosflobo.bsky.social · 2d

A ver si ésta nueva temporada os propongo algo, seguramente ya para 2026, que de aquí a final de año lo tengo complicado 😅

Marcos F. Lobo @marcosflobo.bsky.social · 2d

It smells like autumn… and that's good 🌰🍁🍂🍄

Marcos F. Lobo @marcosflobo.bsky.social · 2d

In today’s email, I share with you a checklist that you can follow to get a Staff Engineer position.

newsletter.optimistengineer.com/p/how-to-bec...

#StaffEngineer #techlead #softwaredevelopment

How to Become a Staff Engineer: 5 Signals That Matter

Concrete behaviours and evidence you can start building this sprint.

newsletter.optimistengineer.com

Marcos F. Lobo @marcosflobo.bsky.social · 2d

My favorite is: "it's what ChatGPT said !"

Marcos F. Lobo @marcosflobo.bsky.social · 2d

How to Become a Staff Engineer: 5 Signals That Matter

Subscribe now and receive it tomorrow morning directly into your inbox 📥👇🏽

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Marcos F. Lobo @marcosflobo.bsky.social · 2d

As Tech Lead or Senior Software Engineer, I'm pretty sure you did this already, maybe without knowing 👇🏽
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#techlead #softwareengineering

Leadership Is Altitude Management

The higher you go, the more perspective you gain… but the less control you have.

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Marcos F. Lobo @marcosflobo.bsky.social · 3d

Felicidades equipo! Estáis haciendo un trabajo fantástico en Asturias y eso se nota.

Muchas cosas buenas van a salir de esto, estoy seguro 😉

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Asturias Software Crafters @asturiascrafters.com · 3d

Fue un evento dinámico, divertido y con muchas, muchas ideas. Por si no lo conocéis, un OpenSpace es tipo de evento auto organizado. Esto quiere decir que no existe agenda previa y que se crea en el momento por los asistentes. Tuvimos más de veinticuatro propuestas.

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Asturias Software Crafters @asturiascrafters.com · 3d

¡Buenas!

El pasado viernes celebramos un evento muy especial: nuestro primer open-space, esperamos que no sea el último. Este evento lo coorganizamos junto con @LUCE.Gijon.

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Brittany Ellich @brittanyellich.com · 4d

The 5 Stages of Tech Debt, a 🧵

(Based on a true story)

The 5 stages of tech debt from brittanyellich

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