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Manuel S. Martone @codebrainr

Senior AI Engineer | Indiepreneur | Co-author of ShipWithAI | Obsessed with delivering value through AI https://t.co/gmXaC712ZL https://t.co/JfXKYXoRlB linktr.ee/manuelmartone Rome Joined July 2009
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Rinat Abdullin @abdullin

a week ago

It’s been a while since I wrote an essay. Here’s a new one. abdullin.com/ai-coding/bori…

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Manuel S. Martone @codebrainr

2 weeks ago

Refusing to work with AI isn't a principled stand anymore, it's a resignation letter the market writes for you. Adapt or watch your rejection pile grow.

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Manuel S. Martone @codebrainr

3 weeks ago

Software engineering is a discipline built on rigor, tradeoffs, and accountability. Vibe coding is improv with a keyboard. Cute trick, not a career.

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Manuel S. Martone @codebrainr

3 weeks ago

Vibe coding didn't just burn engineers, it burned the companies betting on it. The demo shipped. The production system didn't. Guess who's footing the rebuild bill?

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Manuel S. Martone @codebrainr

3 weeks ago

Newsflash: the job market isn't grading you on principle. Engineers refusing to touch AI tools aren't making a stand, they're quietly pricing themselves out of relevance. Adapt or become a cautionary tale in someone else's onboarding deck.

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Manuel S. Martone @codebrainr

3 weeks ago

Vibe coding gets you a demo. Software engineering gets you a system that survives Monday. Confusing the two is how "it works on my machine" becomes a postmortem.

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Manuel S. Martone @codebrainr

3 weeks ago

"Vibe coding" felt like magic, until the companies chasing it hit production. Shipping fast on vibes isn't a strategy, it's a mirage. The water you saw wasn't there. Neither was the architecture.

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Manuel S. Martone @codebrainr

3 weeks ago

Hot take: engineers who dig in their heels against AI aren't purists, they're future case studies in "what happened to that team." The market isn't waiting for your feelings. Adapt now or explain your gap year later.

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4 weeks ago

Da qualche parte nel mondo, c’è un file Excel che manda avanti un’intera azienda. E nessuno sa chi l’abbia creato

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Manuel S. Martone @codebrainr

4 weeks ago

Every generation has an engineer who swore the new tool was "for people who don't really know how to code." Compilers. IDEs. Now AI. History doesn't remember them fondly, it just stops hiring them.

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Manuel S. Martone @codebrainr

4 weeks ago

Firing your engineers because "AI can vibe-code it" doesn't save money, it just moves the cost from salaries to a support ticket backlog nobody can debug.

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Manuel S. Martone @codebrainr

4 weeks ago

Senior engineers skipping AI tools to "protect their craft" aren't defending expertise, they're just working slower than juniors who use it. Pride doesn't ship code.

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Manuel S. Martone @codebrainr

4 weeks ago

"AI writes code now, so we don't need engineers." Bold move. Also how you ship a product held together by duct tape and hope. Vibe coding without engineers isn't lean, t's a slow-motion outage waiting for an audience.

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Manuel S. Martone @codebrainr

4 weeks ago

Ten years of hard-won expertise, torched because "real engineers don't need AI." That's not a principled stand. That's how senior devs turn themselves into legacy systems nobody wants to maintain.

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Manuel S. Martone @codebrainr

4 weeks ago

"We don't need engineers, we have AI" is how companies vibe-code their way into unmaintainable products. Prompting isn't engineering. Ship fast, break trust, repeat.

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Manuel S. Martone @codebrainr

a month ago

Senior engineers who refuse AI tools aren't protecting their craft, they're quietly making themselves replaceable. Experience + AI beats experience alone. Every time. Gatekeeping your skills won't stop the shift, it'll just leave you standing still while it happens.

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Manuel S. Martone @codebrainr

a month ago

@natedamm @AlexFinn @dhh Don’t know sincerely. I used dell, hp, asus always bad machines made just for windows I had to adapt to use with Linux. Unfortunately nothing comparable to a MacBook Pro

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Manuel S. Martone @codebrainr

2 months ago

Senior engineers reluctant to use AI aren't protecting craft, they're leaving leverage on the table. AI engineering isn't about replacing your skills. It's about multiplying them. The best engineers will use AI to do more, not less.

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Manuel S. Martone @codebrainr

2 months ago

Your side projects ARE your portfolio. Not your resume. Not your LinkedIn. The thing you built, shipped, and got real users on, that's what closes clients and opens doors. Build in public. Ship ugly. Iterate fast.

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