Run a Senior Job Search Like a Pipeline
Aaron Wise
Executive job search strategy: run it like a sales pipeline, with a target list, stages, conversion rates and the sources that actually produce interviews.
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Aaron Wise
Executive job search strategy: run it like a sales pipeline, with a target list, stages, conversion rates and the sources that actually produce interviews.
Candidate Experience Is Your Employer Brand
Aaron Wise
Candidate experience is your employer brand: how you treat candidates, especially rejected ones, tells the market what working for you is like.
What a Week of AI Coding Agents Actually Cost Me
Aaron Wise
Real numbers from one week of Claude Code and Codex — cost, cache savings, CI minutes, what ran, and what broke.
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Churn early warning signs show up in support tickets, workarounds and churn reasons first. A weekly loop with CS turns them into roadmap decisions.
AI Features Without a Feature Factory
Aaron Wise
AI feature prioritization: fund a model only when there is a measurable user problem, data you can use and a way to evaluate it. Otherwise it is output.
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More in EngineeringWhat a Week of AI Coding Agents Actually Cost Me
Aaron Wise
Real numbers from one week of Claude Code and Codex — cost, cache savings, CI minutes, what ran, and what broke.
Your Coding Agents Are Making Supply-Chain Decisions
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Coding agents and supply chain security: agents add packages and run install scripts nobody approved. Gate new dependencies, sandbox agents, pin builds.
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Treat Your Retrieval Index as a Data Product
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RAG data quality starts with the index: give it an owner, freshness targets including deletes, lineage, source-matched access controls and quality checks.
Measure the Boring Baseline Before You Build With an LLM
Aaron Wise
LLM baseline first: measure the rule, lookup or small model on the same test, and fix in advance the margin the LLM must beat before you fund it.
Know the Cost per Answer Before You Ship an LLM Feature
Aaron Wise
LLM cost per query, fully loaded: what one answer costs, what it is worth, what heavy users do to both, and the levers that fix the math before launch.
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AI feature prioritization: fund a model only when there is a measurable user problem, data you can use and a way to evaluate it. Otherwise it is output.
The Security Questionnaire Is Part of the Sale
Enterprise security questionnaires stall deals nobody owns. Run review as a sales stage: answer library, trust page, one owner, SOC 2 when deals need it.
Backfills and the Cost of Being Wrong
Data pipeline backfills are routine, not emergencies. Make jobs idempotent, partitioned, deterministic and versioned so fixing history takes an afternoon.
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LLM cost per query, fully loaded: what one answer costs, what it is worth, what heavy users do to both, and the levers that fix the math before launch.
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Churn early warning signs show up in support tickets, workarounds and churn reasons first. A weekly loop with CS turns them into roadmap decisions.
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Candidate Experience Is Your Employer Brand
Candidate experience is your employer brand: how you treat candidates, especially rejected ones, tells the market what working for you is like.