A CTO's Notebook: A personal blog by Leon Revill on emerging tech, leadership & side projects.
The best teams don't rely on heroes; they rely on each other. Discover how Collective Responsibility transforms engineering culture, turning "it works on my machine" into shared success, better stability, and the psychological safety to take risks.
Is AI making developers faster or just worse? A CTO builds a complex platform from scratch to test the "Stability Tax," why "Vibe Coding" is dead, and how the developer’s role is shifting from bricklayer to site foreman.
I used AI to rewrite The Hobbit for my 4-year-old. The experiment resulted in 5 startling realisations about our AI-driven future, touching on everything from accessibility and creativity to the very definition of humanity.
When my car's autopilot glitched in traffic, it became the catalyst for a story rooted in a perspective of hope.
The AI boom echoes the dot-com era, but AI's wider business impact sets it apart. This is an exciting time for tech professionals, offering opportunities to shape the AI-powered future.
Maestro offers a compelling solution to streamline your mobile testing efforts and ensure the delivery of high-quality mobile applications via open-source test automation tooling.
Shift-left testing is a software development approach that focuses on moving testing activities earlier in the development lifecycle.
Retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) allows AI models, such as LLMs to use additional context to provide more accurate and useful answers.
AI agents are intelligent systems designed to understand their environment, process information, and take action in pursuit of specific goals.