Iván González

The AI Fatigue Curve: Why Intensity Is Not Free AI-driven productivity follows a predictable curve — boost, stretch, crash. Three operational limits help teams sustain intensity without burning through attention and judgment.

The AI Fatigue Curve: Why Intensity Is Not Free.

AI Shrinks Cycle Time. Humans Don't. AI compresses delivery cycles, but trust and emotional processing don't. That gap — Human Latency — is the friction your team can't ship away.

AI Shrinks Cycle Time. Humans Don't.

Learning to Build in the Age of AI AI is changing how we write code — but not why we build. A gentle, optimistic note for juniors and career switchers learning software today.

Learning to Build in the Age of AI.

Engineering Leadership Playbook A practical, copy-pastable operating system for healthy, high-performing engineering teams in remote-first SaaS environments. Covers team operations, delivery, metrics, culture, and people growth.

Career break = time + headspace ✨ I finally wrote down my lived lessons from leading remote teams—my personal Engineering Leadership Playbook: a home for my principles today, and a place to pour new learnings as I grow #TechLeadership #EngineeringManagement

👉 dreamingecho.es/playbook

The Year I Paused to Move Forward A reflective recap of 2025 — choosing a pause, rebuilding capacity, returning to the market, and remembering that people are the point.

The Year I Paused to Move Forward.

High Achievers, Heavy Minds Ambition can look like strength from the outside — but for many high achievers in tech, success comes with a quiet emotional weight rarely seen or acknowledged.

High Achievers, Heavy Minds.

When Your Worth Becomes Your Output When productivity stops being what we do and quietly becomes who we are — a reflection on identity, self-worth, and performance culture in tech.

When Your Worth Becomes Your Output.

The Invisible Burnout Burnout doesn’t always arrive as collapse. Often it comes quietly — through numbness, over-functioning, and the slow fading of joy in work that once mattered deeply.

The Invisible Burnout.

Qual + Quant Reviews in 45 Minutes Fast, high-signal qual + quant reviews help triads reconnect with reality—turning scattered data, user feedback, and technical signals into shared judgment in just 45 minutes.

Qual + Quant Reviews in 45 Minutes.

Post-Launch Care Windows Shipping isn’t the finish line — it’s when the real signals start. How triads can use care windows to learn, restore coherence, and protect the team’s rhythm after each release.

Post-Launch Care Windows.

Design Debt Is Real Debt Why ignoring design debt quietly drains product velocity — and trust. How Product, Design, and Engineering can recognize it early, address it together, and rebuild coherence without slowing down.

Design Debt Is Real Debt.

Weekly Bets vs. Backlog Treadmills How triads can turn endless task lists into meaningful progress. Moving from backlog autopilot to intentional weekly bets that bring focus, ownership, and rhythm back to teams.

Weekly Bets vs. Backlog Treadmills.

From PRD to Prod Without Ping-Pong Cross-functional collaboration shouldn’t feel like a game of hand-offs. Here’s how Product, Design, and Engineering can move from alignment theatre to shared flow — building clarity, trust, and moment...

From PRD to Prod Without Ping-Pong.

When Overcommunication Becomes Noise in Remote Teams Overcommunication can look like alignment, but often it’s anxiety in disguise. Learn how to design remote communication that builds trust through clarity, not noise.

When Overcommunication Becomes Noise in Remote Teams.

People‑first, for real: adapt your management style to the person Understand how each person thinks and decides, then choose a management style that fits. A practical, people‑first guide with day‑to‑day styles, a lightweight personality map, and weekly rituals.

People‑first, for real: adapt your management style to the person.

Elixir Radar 485

Elixir Radar issue 485 is out! 📣

You can read it here: buff.ly/HGjAeCB

This issue comes with content from @dreamingechoes.bsky.social @ievgenpyrogov.com @yellowduck.be @lawik.bsky.social @elixircasts.io and Masatoshi Nishiguchi. Thank you!

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What Engineering Management Is, And What It Isn’t If I were to ask any random engineer, who didn’t have management experience, “what does your manager actually do?”, I bet they would say something along the lines of “well&#…

Engineering Management isn’t a promotion; it’s a different job. Emma Bostian’s article clearly outlines what effective EM looks like.

High‑impact 1:1s in Remote Teams: Building Trust and Psychological Safety A practical, people‑first playbook for running remote 1:1s that build trust and psychological safety, surface risks early, and drive growth—without turning into therapy or status updates.

High‑impact 1:1s in Remote Teams: Building Trust and Psychological Safety.

The Daily Album GPT interface showing album recommendation prompts.

Example GPT response recommending 'Carrie & Lowell' by Sufjan Stevens.

I love music, especially discovering new albums that bring me joy. So I built a small GPT to help me find daily album recommendations, and it works great! 🎶

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Owning Your Career as a Software Engineer: Beyond Code to Real Impact Career growth in software engineering isn’t just about writing better code—it’s about taking ownership of your trajectory and focusing on real-world impact.

Career growth in software engineering doesn’t happen by chance. The best engineers don’t just write great code, they take ownership of their learning, seek meaningful challenges, and focus on real impact.

I did this test in 3 h to see how Cursor works.
Without knowing React or Typescript.

Conclusions:
1. Wow
2. Be prepared for tech bros who think that developers won't be needed
3. Excited to see products that make the most of LLMs
4. Fingers crossed for more environmentally conscious technology soon

Oh wow, I didn’t know about this library, I’ll take a look at it, thank you for the reference! 🤗

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Creating an AI-Powered Search Input With Phoenix LiveView #MyElixirStatus #ElixirLang

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Building a Minimal Blog in Pure Elixir with Notion as a CMS #MyElixirStatus #ElixirLang

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Small Signals, Big Impact: How Tiny Acts of Self-Care Can Transform Workplace Well-Being Small, thoughtful ways to support each other at work can have a big impact. Normalizing simple signals—like Slack statuses or images—helps create a healthier, more mindful workplace.

Small Signals, Big Impact: How Tiny Acts of Self-Care Can Transform Workplace Well-Being.

How to Change a Field Type in an Ecto Embedded Schema with a Migration Changing a field type in an Ecto embedded schema requires both a code update and a database migration. This guide walks through the process, ensuring data consistency and avoiding common pitfalls.

How to Change a Field Type in an Ecto Embedded Schema with a Migration #MyElixirStatus #ElixirLang

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