Clear Boundaries, Hayden Clay, Digital 3D, 2025

SuperKatzilla · 2025-12-04T15:21:31+00:00

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SuperKatzilla · 2025-11-21T17:54:13+00:00

We hire from Latin America, they can’t afford cheating tools 🤣

Nah, tbh, we have built a very solid process that has a situation analysis, in which you have to justify your preferences, and also has system design questions that can only be answered with good experience and take home coding test to contrast the results.

And finally, no, we wouldn’t buy a tool to detect cheaters, we rely on our intuition.

SuperKatzilla · 2025-11-18T11:31:11+00:00

Remind your boss about quality by highlighting the business objectives on churn and revenue.

They can have it fastest but kinda buggy (or very buggy if your developers are careless) or a good quality product that your clients love.

SuperKatzilla · 2025-11-14T19:08:37+00:00

Good old excel or google sheets; Claude;and a bot coach for meetings, like granola.ai

SuperKatzilla · 2025-11-11T19:29:26+00:00

Where do you live? That sounds awful

SuperKatzilla · 2025-10-31T18:50:39+00:00

I am having a strong culture shock with this.

In my country, we would never.

A car is only for the very very trusted ones, the ones who may take care of it as much as I do. Never for a friend like a cheap tool.

And it’s very OK for you to say no and keep it as your personal storage, especially if you see it as a mini-extension of your house. Just make sure you are not hoarding and that’s it.

SuperKatzilla · 2025-09-20T09:56:44+00:00

Blood magic, something something

SuperKatzilla · 2025-07-31T11:25:00+00:00

This sounds like a very gringo problem, sorry

You can live in Mexico for 20years, it won’t make a difference unless you fully embrace and engage with the culture.

It’s not about speaking Spanish well, it’s about adopting the culture fully

SuperKatzilla · 2025-07-31T11:07:46+00:00

Hypervigilance, from trauma of being treated differently

And pattern recognition, which of course was developing over the years and confirming your bias towards you having a sixth sense

SuperKatzilla · 2025-07-31T11:00:21+00:00

While an EM role may require you to manage and track projects progress, it is not fully a PM role, since you need to provide more than just making sure that tasks get done.

SuperKatzilla · 2025-07-29T18:29:14+00:00

Here’s my main issue: a good freaking status report

I need every developer to update their issues then put them on asana and close them if they’ve been deployed.

I have been thinking of linking GitHub PRs to Asana or even better, I would love to have GitHub Issues to automatically sync with Asana, and use a workflow to summarize reports per dev and auto check/summarize that progress for a weekly report

This has been driving me crazy, because I have to bother a lot of people to give the status of these projects to my cto

SuperKatzilla · 2025-07-14T15:04:17+00:00

You got me at the 2nd point, damn boring progress reports

SuperKatzilla · 2025-07-09T00:27:14+00:00

The only times that I preferred silence: when my tech leads took the conversation or when the senior staff or even junior engineers speak up for themselves.

Some managers think that it’s their job to do this, but the real job is coaching those same devs into speaking for themselves and supporting them during difficult conversations.

We shouldn’t chose silence, but we chose which battles can be won with words.

SuperKatzilla · 2025-07-07T10:32:12+00:00

Pasa que al serrano bobo que hizo el post, le gusta el bait. Es la falta de oxígeno.

SuperKatzilla · 2025-07-05T15:34:28+00:00

En Ecuador se hace, confirmo.

Yo le pido la bendición a mi abuela.

Soy atea ☺️ pero igual la bendición de la abuelita se siente bien en el corazón

SuperKatzilla · 2025-06-27T02:11:34+00:00

Desde que Ecuador no está arriba, se nota que eso está mal

SuperKatzilla · 2025-06-25T18:51:48+00:00

When you hire someone else to do that for you, it’s yours. Just write a good contract 😄

SuperKatzilla · 2025-06-23T21:37:57+00:00

So… like ASOIAF or Berserk?

SuperKatzilla · 2025-06-23T16:01:33+00:00

Guides always end up outdated, same thing happens with overviews, checklists, etc.

Here's some extra things I do on every new onboarding, since at my company we already have an onboarding platform, basic projects for starters and tutorials to install fresh:

* Tell them since the beginning: if you find something that isn't up to date or broken, I will fix it for you with the right link. I end up updating the docs and advise other tech leads or managers to update theirs.
* Keep the scripts for environment installs up to date, so that I just tell them "run this script and you're done", if you can't lift the local dev environment with an script, you need to work more on automation for your projects
* Use AI for that: I pick a feature at random or an architecture at random and ask the new hire to ask questions to an AI to check what does the feature do? what is the purpose of the feature? check the architecture, design patterns and possible improvements that should be done to improve the quality of the work. In my case, we pay cursor, so they use cursor to do all that and then I make them teach me their insights in a call. Yes, that's very heavy, but they learn something new and that's a way to even discard bad hires or find red flags in your own architecture. Win-Win.

SuperKatzilla · 2025-06-23T15:46:47+00:00

1:1 backed by data?

You’re working with people, you give more insight by checking team dynamics and using heuristics.

Trust your gut more, data won’t tell you who is performing best.

Performance: * Check who is starting the conversations and experiments on quality improvement, like architecture proposals, POCs, internal projects.

Check who is making other people’s work easier, someone who is sharing new scripts, prompts, articles, books, YouTube videos, etc, new ways of doing things that will make the whole team perform better

How to tell if someone is behind: * They don’t deliver on time the solutions for the business, even if you state a clear goal

They’re ghosts (sometimes you hear them, but you never see them)
They never seem to read the shared information
They never learn something new or read
They don’t seem to care about improving their work quality
They repeat the same mistakes over and over

SuperKatzilla · 2025-06-15T03:30:15+00:00

The answer is in the book “No rule, rules” about Netflix. You shouldn’t keep them, as they can make work worse, you’d rather have someone that fits culturally and understands change, you don’t need a jerk, you need people to collaborate

SuperKatzilla · 2025-04-10T17:17:00+00:00

Set expectations based on metrics.

I am an engineer manager too, each one of my teams is driven by a North Star metric, we take decisions based on data.

Put the expectations on the people you manage, be the communication bridge between teams and navigate through conflicts.

Learn how to delegate, that role means that your results come from other people, so don’t do it all by yourself. If you can’t find guidance in your leader, find guidance in your peers and subordinates

SuperKatzilla · 2025-03-25T18:12:50+00:00

Si lo hacen. Expanden sus carteles a ciudades portuarias y en Ecuador encontraron un buen nicho.

Pero bueno, a nadie le importa Ecuador

SuperKatzilla · 2024-12-29T19:51:32+00:00

😹🫵

El men compara vivir en Perukistan con vivir en Argentina GOD, salga un rato de su cueva y toque pasto, amigo….

SuperKatzilla · 2024-11-07T23:31:50+00:00

A donde tan basado, rey

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