Engineering leadership · AI · the long game
By Ram Chevendra — Senior Software Engineering Manager. I write about engineering leadership, agentic AI in the enterprise, and the craft of staying technical as a leader.
My previous post on Synapse covered the six-agent pipeline that produces the summary. This one is about the other six agents, the ones that score it. Honestly,…
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Synapse: A multi-agentic summarizer and evaluator I built Synapse over a few weekends to scratch two itches at once. The first was a real frustration: I keep e…
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Last weekend, I designed and shipped a production blog from scratch for my wife in a few hours. I'm not a designer. I don't run a UX practice. I haven't touche…
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If you've ever tried to make a pile of PDFs queryable actually queryable, not just searchable by filename you've run into the same wall the rest of us have. OC…
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Five years ago, taking an idea from a whiteboard sketch to a deployed, production-grade application was measured in weeks or months. Today, for the right kind o…
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What I’ve learned managing engineers, building teams, and balancing strategy with shipping.
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Notes outside the day job — books, family, reflections, and things that don’t fit anywhere else.
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