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geeks with blogs home about your customers build the features now i let a tool i liked sit dead for a year rather than build the features i wanted an mcp server meant i never had to and your customers can do the same to your product matt watson 2026 08 05 get the size of a directory in linux the easy way du sh for the quick answer ncdu for the cleanup df for the disk itself every command for checking directory size in linux plus why du and df never agree matt watson 2026 07 19 vim search and replace the ultimate guide one s command replaces every match in a file before a find dialog would even open the vim substitute patterns worth the muscle memory flags ranges capture groups and multi file edits matt watson 2026 07 19 because of ai you need a new development team your existing team is buried in the complexity of your existing product ai rewards the team with a blank slate most companies don t have one matt watson 2026 07 07 the offshore problem that starts with a yes the stories about offshore not working are rarely about skill they are about an invisible communication gap and it starts the moment someone says yes matt watson 2026 07 01 the focus five five questions to know if your team is actually making progress almost nobody trains you to be an engineering manager you were good at writing code so you got handed more people and more meetings and one day the job matt watson 2026 07 01 why nobody knows what engineering does at vinsolutions i was famous for one thing that had nothing to do with writing code every single time we shipped a release i posted about it on social matt watson 2026 06 30 employee turnover is the silent dev team killer employee retention is a silent killer for dev teams and ai is making it worse teams track velocity headcount and tooling spend down to the decimal and matt watson 2026 06 29 upskilling developers in the ai era the job we spent twenty years hiring for is the one ai is best at for most of my career the path was to go narrow you became the react person or the matt watson 2026 06 29 how to become a senior software engineer i hired 1 000 of them i have hired somewhere north of a thousand software engineers at vinsolutions at stackify and now at full scale where we build dedicated development matt watson 2026 06 27 the ai last mile is actually the first mile a few weeks ago i wrote about my friend who discovered claude code and disappeared for two months he sent me screenshots of five claude code sessions matt watson 2026 06 23 the pattern i see managing remote teams a founder told me a few weeks ago that his remote team wasn t working out good developers on paper he said but the work kept missing the mark and he matt watson 2026 06 16 ai won t make you a 10x developer a year ago i was the guy rolling his eyes at the ai demos i tried to use it back then to score sales leads and i couldn t get it to reliably do matt watson 2026 06 09 developers are turning into ai vampires i m one of them i slept with my laptop last night open on the bed with a claude session still running for the last week and a half i ve carried it everywhere it matt watson 2026 06 02 how karpathy solved the 1 ai problem in january andrej karpathy the guy who helped start openai and ran ai at tesla wrote a short post on x about how his programming workflow had changed matt watson 2026 05 26 vibe coding entrepreneurs don t scale every other linkedin post these days is some flavor of i built a saas over the weekend with claude code and i don t need engineers anymore matt watson 2026 05 19 ai killed the backlog here s a test for any engineering leader reading this delete your backlog i m serious delete the whole thing matt watson 2026 05 12 ai writes 100 of the code you re still liable for 100 of it there is a new bet running through every engineering org i talk to in 2026 ai can write all the code how much can you trust ai is the real question matt watson 2026 05 05 software developers are replacing software engineers software developers are going to replace software engineers that isn t a typo it s what ai is actually doing to our industry and most people don t see matt watson 2026 04 28 ai is replacing engineering tasks not jobs every cto i talk to has a version of the same conversation happening on their team right now an engineer is scared they ve seen what claude code can do matt watson 2026 04 21 prev 1 2 227 next geeks with blogs a community archive of developer blogs and technical articles preserved at their original urls browse home about archive 2026 geeks with blogs posts by their original authors