Posts by rm0santos

@rm0santos

Ricardo Santos

Lisboa, Portugal notthecode.com Joined December 2025
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Posts by rm0santos

rm0santos • • in Articles • 8 min read
Originally published on NotTheCodehttps://notthecode.com/owning-code-you-didnt-write/?utmsource=coderlegion&utmmedium=referral&utmcampaign=articleshare. A developer merges a pull request on Friday afternoon. Monday morning, a security review flags a...
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rm0santos • • in Articles • 11 min read
The Hard Truth About Technical Leadership You were the best engineer on the team. You shipped faster, debugged deeper, and held the architecture in your head like a map. Then someone made you a tech lead, and within three months you became the bott...
rm0santos • • in Articles • 7 min read
Autonomous AI agents don’t make teams faster. They make teams weirder: every developer becomes a manager, whether they asked for it or not. The hard part isn’t getting an agent to write code—it’s learning how to direct, constrain, and verify a system...
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rm0santos • • in Articles • 6 min read
Key Takeaways The Infinite Intern Problem: AI optimizes for speed and syntax, while Senior Engineers must optimize for system longevity and context. Treat AI as a hyper-productive intern who needs constant supervision. Adopt a "Zero Trust" Policy...
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