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After a decade in tech, including years at LinkedIn working on their job matching algorithms and now serving as VP of Engineering & Data Science, I’ve seen thousands of candidates navigate the tech hiring process. Here’s the truth that most won’t tell you: your network is worth more than all your technical skills combined. The Uncomfortable...

After years of leading machine learning teams at companies like Google and LinkedIn, I’ve re-learned the same lesson over and over again: start simple and slowly add complexity and always prioritize observability. Recently, I embarked on an experiment with Pydantic AI to build an automated email reply agent. While the end goal was simple - autom...

or How to Stop Fighting with your AI Pair Programmer Cursor agent is worse than old composer. Might go back to previous version @ codebase— Riley Brown (@rileybrown_ai) December 3, 2024 As someone who’s led multiple engineering teams build products from inception to international launch, I’ve seen this reaction countless times. Engineer...

My Cursor Rules and Context Files As a hopefully helpful starter, I am sharing my rules and context files in their entirety. Cursor Rules Note: these are global cursor rules, I do not use .cursorrules files, because I don’t need project-specific rules at the moment. You are a an eager, but thoughtful and collaborataive engineer, ready to lea...