Auth & identity nerd | 20+ yrs in software engineering DevRel Manager @auth0 Writing about dev careers + AI at https://xitter.twitterapi.xyz/t.co/eiXermUjVI DM open for collabs
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I have 17 hours until reset, so I did the logical thing and sent Fable 5.2 on a goal quest.
Now it’s Netflix time!
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Using @theo’s council skill with t3 has fundamentally changed the way I’m building.
Currently I have opus 5.5 leading the charge, with Opus himself, gpt6 and grok as council members.
I’m getting amazing results running goals, I’m very happy with it.
It’s not cheap though, but it’s very efficient.
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Juan Cruz Martinez retweeted
this month's in the last episode for this season of the Making Software podcast.
i have an idea of what topic i'd like to discuss but i'd love to hear from folks here:
who should be the last guest of the year?
what should we talk about?
🤖 Made with AI
Juan Cruz Martinez retweeted
Tools give your AI hands. MCP connects them. Skills give it a playbook.
@jesstemporal breaks down how these layers fit together, where security can go wrong, and where OAuth 2.1 comes in. 👀
Juan Cruz Martinez retweeted
Introducing AgentReady.org, the first open standard for agent experience.
Agents are a new class of user, but there's still no shared definition of what it takes to be ready for them. So we partnered with the leading companies in the agentic web such as Vercel, Stripe, Auth0, Mintlify, Tavily and Elementor.
Our research lab ran agents on real tasks more than 250,000 times to measure what actually decides whether an agent succeeds, and every requirement traces back to that data.
The result is a short set of essentials in the order agents meet a product: find, read, act.
We've been overwhelmed by requests to join. If you build or study the surfaces agents touch, come help shape it.
The spec: agentready.org
The story behind it: ora.ai/blog/agentready-launc…
Juan Cruz Martinez retweeted
"On-Behalf-Of" (OBO) names a pattern.
OAuth Token Exchange (RFC 8693) is the standard that formalizes it.
Microsoft's OBO flow predates it and isn't RFC 8693-compliant.
Why that distinction matters for AI agents: auth0.com/blog/on-behalf-of-…
Juan Cruz Martinez retweeted
“Just add login” 💀 Famous last words.
From session management to AI agents, here's why auth gets complicated fast. Read the blog: auth0.com/blog/everybody-thi…
By @jcmartinezdev
Tech interviews are having an identity crisis.
For long tech companies relied on leet code interviews, and even though they were controversial, they worked, at least somewhat.
But AI ruined it, AI can solve any leet code challenge with ease, which had two side effects, first, it lead to cheating and a fight for companies to caught it, but most importantly, with AI, being able to solve a challenge like that is meaningless.
So where are we now with interviews in tech?
I see increasingly companies testing a developer’s ability to understand code bases, basically instead of a leet code challenge, you’re given a medium size code base and you need to understand it, or make a small change live during the interview. They expect you to use AI to make progress fast, otherwise you won’t be able to complete it in time.
I like this, because it reflects more the reality of devs in their daily jobs, using AI not only to build, but to understand, and stay in control.
AI as an amplifier, not a replacement.
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My new article is out!
Productivity tips for new managers, not entire systems which are impossible to follow when you’re already busy with your new role, but actual small steps and things you can do to make small improvements that compound over time.
Check it out!
open.substack.com/pub/thelon…
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We can't normalize people generating slides with AI, and reading them for the first time when presenting them.
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There are no surprises here, this is the Bending Spoons way. Leaning on smaller teams to run products and they have been quite successful doing so.
Not because of AI, but because they seem very efficient at finding the right focus and working with smaller teams.
It's really unfortunate to everyone who was let go, that part really sucks and I hope they were fairly compensated and can get back on their feet quickly.
I know great people who worked there.
Today we’re laying off a large part of the Airtable team.
This is not a reflection of their work but a reflection of our deep belief that small teams ship more and better.
For Airtable, better is about to look like:
- A new Core team shipping your top requests monthly (already 30+ shipped in 3 weeks)
- Upgraded Omni, Airtable Canvas, a stronger MCP, and BYO agents, coming soon
- New Performance and Infra teams focusing on speeding up bases and increasing limits on records, fields, and syncs
To everyone leaving: thank you. If you’re hiring, these are excellent people and worth a call.
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Engineering was about building things right, Engineering with AI is about building the right thing.
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This is not only bad UX, but it is also not the safest.
Passkeys is the solution, good UX, great security.
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Whether we like it or not, modern software engineering is done with AI.
If you want to be employable, you’ll have to train building with AI, it’s a must-have requirement in most startups, small businesses and big tech.
And those companies too busy to experiment with AI, or that simply refuse the change, will have a hard time remaining competitive and existing.
If you are already embracing AI, great, if not, do yourself a favor, and get on with it. There’s time to catch up.
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