Pablo Fernandez 🧉
@pablofernandez.bsky.social
Head of Engineering for Pexels at Canva. Ex Google.
Writes about AI, coding, management, tech, business, and geeky stuff.
Writes about AI, coding, management, tech, business, and geeky stuff.
My interview in The AI and ML Conversations with Iavor Botev podcast is out: www.youtube.com/watc...
#ai #llm #podcast
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Pablo Fernandez (Head of Eng Pexels@Canva, Ex-Google): Surviving the AI Shift, Work-Life Integration
🎙️ In this episode of "AI and ML Conversations," I sit down with *Pablo Fernandez*, Head of Engineering for *Pexels*at*Canva*. Pablo brings a wealth of experience from his time at *Google* to co-founding multiple startups and leading engineering teams in the age of AI.
We explore the shifting la
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February 16, 2026 at 6:31 PM
My interview in The AI and ML Conversations with Iavor Botev podcast is out: www.youtube.com/watc...
#ai #llm #podcast
#ai #llm #podcast
Do you have a subscription with a book publisher, like Manning or O'Reilly? For how long have you had it? Do you make good use of it?
February 16, 2026 at 5:23 PM
Do you have a subscription with a book publisher, like Manning or O'Reilly? For how long have you had it? Do you make good use of it?
"If you want to kill a plant, ask two people to water it" -- Brian Halligan, co-founder Hubspot
In the latest Lenny's Podcast episode.
In the latest Lenny's Podcast episode.
February 16, 2026 at 12:44 PM
"If you want to kill a plant, ask two people to water it" -- Brian Halligan, co-founder Hubspot
In the latest Lenny's Podcast episode.
In the latest Lenny's Podcast episode.
I want to build the simplest possible neural network with some kind of visualization, both to help develop my intuition but also to show it to some friends to explain what is happening inside AI and LLMs.
February 15, 2026 at 4:30 PM
I want to build the simplest possible neural network with some kind of visualization, both to help develop my intuition but also to show it to some friends to explain what is happening inside AI and LLMs.
Argh, my machine learning journey today has been mostly boring data wrangling and waiting for data to download.
February 14, 2026 at 4:45 PM
Argh, my machine learning journey today has been mostly boring data wrangling and waiting for data to download.
Argh, my machine learning journey today has been mostly boring data wrangling and waiting for data to download.
February 14, 2026 at 4:45 PM
Argh, my machine learning journey today has been mostly boring data wrangling and waiting for data to download.
Argh, my machine learning journey today has been mostly boring data wrangling and waiting for data to download.
February 14, 2026 at 4:44 PM
Argh, my machine learning journey today has been mostly boring data wrangling and waiting for data to download.
Argh, my machine learning journey today has been mostly boring data wrangling and waiting for data to download.
February 14, 2026 at 4:44 PM
Argh, my machine learning journey today has been mostly boring data wrangling and waiting for data to download.
I'm exploring reading my computer books digitally. My Kindle is not the right tool, but a mix of a tablet and computer, might be good enough. I find myself wanting all my highlights digitally, instead of on paper.
February 14, 2026 at 4:30 PM
I'm exploring reading my computer books digitally. My Kindle is not the right tool, but a mix of a tablet and computer, might be good enough. I find myself wanting all my highlights digitally, instead of on paper.
There was a company that was getting an interesting pattern. Men would rate them 4 out of 5, women 5 out of 5. This difference disappeared when they switched from 😍 to 🤩 as the way to express 5 out of 5.
This is hilarious and sad at the same time.
This is hilarious and sad at the same time.
February 13, 2026 at 4:29 PM
There was a company that was getting an interesting pattern. Men would rate them 4 out of 5, women 5 out of 5. This difference disappeared when they switched from 😍 to 🤩 as the way to express 5 out of 5.
This is hilarious and sad at the same time.
This is hilarious and sad at the same time.
2025 was the year of the year in review
February 11, 2026 at 3:30 PM
2025 was the year of the year in review
"You do not rise to the level of your goals, you fall to the level of your systems" -- James Clear
February 10, 2026 at 2:30 PM
"You do not rise to the level of your goals, you fall to the level of your systems" -- James Clear
"You should be far more concerned with your current trajectory than with your current results." -- James Clear
February 9, 2026 at 5:26 PM
"You should be far more concerned with your current trajectory than with your current results." -- James Clear
I'm starting to see how the amount of code merging that used to come from a team, can now be produced by a single person with AI. And I'm not even maximizing for throughput since I'm doing ML work and the limiting factor is my ML knowledge.
1/3
1/3
February 8, 2026 at 4:32 PM
I'm starting to see how the amount of code merging that used to come from a team, can now be produced by a single person with AI. And I'm not even maximizing for throughput since I'm doing ML work and the limiting factor is my ML knowledge.
1/3
1/3
I saw this at a hotel.
A year ago this would have made me think of secondary school.
Today it's making me think of AI.
A year ago this would have made me think of secondary school.
Today it's making me think of AI.
February 8, 2026 at 4:30 PM
I saw this at a hotel.
A year ago this would have made me think of secondary school.
Today it's making me think of AI.
A year ago this would have made me think of secondary school.
Today it's making me think of AI.
I just double cloned my machine learning project repo to have two independent AI agents working in parallel. So it begins...
February 7, 2026 at 8:56 PM
I just double cloned my machine learning project repo to have two independent AI agents working in parallel. So it begins...
How important do you think is having fun as the culture of a company?
February 7, 2026 at 4:30 PM
How important do you think is having fun as the culture of a company?
I woke up at 4 and couldn't go back to sleep. I was too eager to go back to coding on my machine learning project. It's noon now and I don't know where the time went, it just flew by. So much fun and so productive. But sleepiness is catching up with me.
February 7, 2026 at 12:41 PM
I woke up at 4 and couldn't go back to sleep. I was too eager to go back to coding on my machine learning project. It's noon now and I don't know where the time went, it just flew by. So much fun and so productive. But sleepiness is catching up with me.
If you wait long enough, a large enough amount of hydrogen, starts thinking and multiplying vectors.
And if you continue waiting... it looks like the vectors might start thinking too!!!!
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And if you continue waiting... it looks like the vectors might start thinking too!!!!
</joke>
February 5, 2026 at 3:27 PM
If you wait long enough, a large enough amount of hydrogen, starts thinking and multiplying vectors.
And if you continue waiting... it looks like the vectors might start thinking too!!!!
</joke>
And if you continue waiting... it looks like the vectors might start thinking too!!!!
</joke>
It's not possible (or very hard) to achieve more than your boss at any company, so the ambition of the boss sets the ceiling for the career progression (and growth) of everyone reporting to them.
February 4, 2026 at 3:29 PM
It's not possible (or very hard) to achieve more than your boss at any company, so the ambition of the boss sets the ceiling for the career progression (and growth) of everyone reporting to them.
And so it begins (again). Another round of training nanochat. This time with my MLA modifications to compare against my previous non-modified version.
#deeplearning
#deeplearning
February 3, 2026 at 6:34 PM
And so it begins (again). Another round of training nanochat. This time with my MLA modifications to compare against my previous non-modified version.
#deeplearning
#deeplearning
I just saw in a survey that one of the things people want to trust AI more is for employers to them people in how to use it. The reality is nobody really knows how to use it this is to new there are no expert we all beginners.
February 3, 2026 at 2:38 PM
I just saw in a survey that one of the things people want to trust AI more is for employers to them people in how to use it. The reality is nobody really knows how to use it this is to new there are no expert we all beginners.
"You can go as fast as the trust you have built with the stakeholders around you."
-- Anne Morriss
-- Anne Morriss
February 2, 2026 at 5:27 PM
"You can go as fast as the trust you have built with the stakeholders around you."
-- Anne Morriss
-- Anne Morriss