Welcome to my new website. This isn’t just a redesign or an update to showcase new projects. It’s a reset.

Why another new version?

A few months ago, in 2025, I discovered AI-assisted development. At first, a few questions to ChatGPT. Then plugins in my editor. Github Copilot. And for fun, and a bit of FOMO, I tested Cursor. What a revelation.

At first, it was just autocomplete. Like the editor was reading my mind. Then I wanted to give it control. Give it more complex tasks. There were disappointments, mistakes, code that wasn’t rigorous, impossible to maintain long-term. Duplication, questionable functions. But I learned to tame the beast. To use it for tedious tasks, but also to design better. Test new technologies. See how far I could go.

I built entire systems. Microservices, event-driven, scalable architecture. Real-time chats, payment systems. In two weeks on my personal time, about 4 to 6 hours a day in the evenings after coming home, where before I would have taken months learning at work. I learned tons of things that would have taken me at minimum 6 months to learn in my daily work. And I finished the year with Claude Code. A seemingly simple tool that runs in a terminal. Configurable, customizable at will. So I customize it, frame it, teach it to think and code like me.

I spent years learning, being mentored by people smarter than me. This knowledge distinguishes me. I hope it won’t be in vain. Everyone can churn out code thanks to AI. But not everyone knows what makes a system that works, that holds up, that stays robust over time. These new tools also made me think about what I really want to do.

A change of direction

This year, I took the time to read. The PostHog team’s newsletters struck me. Product for Engineers. It resonated with me. A new way of seeing my work. The idea that I’m not just a developer. I’ve been designing and creating solutions for years. But I knew that my developer perspective wasn’t enough to succeed in this field. And above all: how to translate this passion into the corporate world as I know it? A developer at the bottom of the chain, executing. Above: POs, PMs, a director. Floors that dilute instructions and blur common sense.

I’m not a PO, nor a PM. These aren’t jobs that would appeal to me. But their decisions sometimes seem irrational to me, disconnected from what really matters: the user and the product. I like the idea of Product Engineer. A developer responsible for the entire product experience. From code to user impact. That’s what I want to do. I was already doing it on my side projects. Without conviction, because it had to be done and I didn’t have a PM. I was always thinking in terms of “what will it cost me to develop”. Today, with this new way of building, I can abstract from all that. Work differently.

That’s the change I want to reflect with this new site.

Something more personal

My old WordPress site did the job. But it was bland. It didn’t allow me to express myself. I wanted something more creative, that reflects me, that I can have fun with. Something light, that I control and understand. So with my new colleague Claude, I rebuilt it from scratch. Vanilla JS to keep it simple, no need for a framework for a small personal site. A small Go backend to have a very light Docker image, not overload my small VPS, and fast, efficient build/deploy. Nothing fancy. Still progress to make, but it’s here. And it fits me.

Why start writing articles?

Honestly? Because I’ve always wanted to. But I didn’t see what it would bring. I convinced myself that I didn’t know how to write. Because I never wrote. Yet I’ve always been creative and loved creative writing when I was younger. The truth? I never really tried. And if I don’t try, nobody will do it for me.

This year, something changed. I’m growing in my career. Becoming a lead. Manager. Supervising. Getting closer to people. The year 2025 was rich in encounters, discussions with fantastic people. I realized something by having debates with friends, seeing their visions of the world change, being a team lead at CBA and seeing my colleagues evolve and trust my reasoning, my intuitions and my expertise. Not just the people I manage. My n+1 too. My fellow leads too. We all learn from each other and I only realized this this year.

My words have value. My ideas aren’t revolutionary. But they’re mine. And depending on who receives them, when, how (things we don’t control), it can mark someone more deeply than you think. Words truly have value and can help or harm people, so you need to weigh them more than I used to. My sometimes cruel need for honesty always made me say everything, all the time, but this year I learned to weigh my words a bit more.

These conversations are part of what’s most rewarding in my work and in my life. Life is made of exchanges. Every word can change the trajectory of a life. So I thought: why not keep a trace of it?

What is this really about?

These articles are an attempt to leave a trace. A testimony. Who I am, my era, my way of seeing things. Not for glory or followers. Just because I exist, I think about things, and maybe someone will read it and it will resonate with them.

I’ll write about Product Engineering. Building things that matter, end to end. About AI and development. What I’m learning in this new agentic world. About leadership. Collaborating, communicating, growing with others. And sometimes random stuff, because not everything needs to be categorized.

Thanks for being here. Let’s see where this takes us.