https://maroffo.github.io/blog/Recent content on MaroffoHugo -- 0.155.3en-usTue, 31 Mar 2026 00:00:00 +0000https://maroffo.github.io/blog/posts/2026-03-31-your-ai-harness-is-hand-crafted-thats-the-problem/Tue, 31 Mar 2026 00:00:00 +0000https://maroffo.github.io/blog/posts/2026-03-31-your-ai-harness-is-hand-crafted-thats-the-problem/Stanford’s Meta-Harness paper argues that optimizing the code around the model matters more than optimizing the model itself. I applied it to my Claude Code setup and got the first real numbers: 3,723 tokens always in context, with no evidence they’re the right ones.https://maroffo.github.io/blog/posts/2026-03-23-from-cognitive-load-to-cognitive-surrender/Mon, 23 Mar 2026 00:00:00 +0000https://maroffo.github.io/blog/posts/2026-03-23-from-cognitive-load-to-cognitive-surrender/A Wharton paper gave a formal name to what I described three weeks ago: when AI thinks for you and you let it. The data is worse than I expected.https://maroffo.github.io/blog/posts/2026-03-15-the-apprenticeship-is-dead-long-live-the-indie-senior/Sun, 15 Mar 2026 00:00:00 +0000https://maroffo.github.io/blog/posts/2026-03-15-the-apprenticeship-is-dead-long-live-the-indie-senior/AI creates a demographic time bomb: it increases demand for senior talent while destroying the pipeline that produces it. What replaces corporate apprenticeship is something closer to Hollywood.https://maroffo.github.io/blog/posts/2026-03-08-everyone-promised-shorter-workweeks-then-came-the-12-hour-laws/Sun, 08 Mar 2026 00:00:00 +0000https://maroffo.github.io/blog/posts/2026-03-08-everyone-promised-shorter-workweeks-then-came-the-12-hour-laws/Keynes predicted 15-hour weeks by 2030. Gates says 2-day weeks within a decade. Meanwhile, Germany, Argentina, and Silicon Valley are legislating or normalizing 12-hour days. The paradox has a name, and it’s 161 years old.https://maroffo.github.io/blog/posts/2026-03-06-ai-didnt-reduce-my-cognitive-load-it-moved-it/Fri, 06 Mar 2026 00:00:00 +0000https://maroffo.github.io/blog/posts/2026-03-06-ai-didnt-reduce-my-cognitive-load-it-moved-it/Everyone says AI makes developers faster. My experience is the opposite: I arrive exhausted not because I wrote more code, but because I evaluated more decisions. The effort didn’t shrink. It transformed.https://maroffo.github.io/blog/posts/2026-03-04-ai-is-breaking-the-engineering-talent-pipeline/Wed, 04 Mar 2026 00:00:00 +0000https://maroffo.github.io/blog/posts/2026-03-04-ai-is-breaking-the-engineering-talent-pipeline/Three fractures in how we learn, hire, and distribute capability.https://maroffo.github.io/blog/posts/2026-02-26-when-your-ais-second-brain-starts-talking-back/Thu, 26 Feb 2026 00:00:00 +0000https://maroffo.github.io/blog/posts/2026-02-26-when-your-ais-second-brain-starts-talking-back/Three layers of knowledge integration between Obsidian and Claude Code: from write-only vault to a feedback loop that promotes patterns into skills.https://maroffo.github.io/blog/posts/2026-02-19-the-missing-step-what-a-colleagues-hint-taught-me-about-ai-driven-planning/Thu, 19 Feb 2026 00:00:00 +0000https://maroffo.github.io/blog/posts/2026-02-19-the-missing-step-what-a-colleagues-hint-taught-me-about-ai-driven-planning/Structured requirements, deviation rules, and the art of selective theft: five concepts borrowed from GSD, twenty rejected.https://maroffo.github.io/blog/posts/2026-02-12-when-your-ai-skills-library-gets-too-smart-for-its-own-context-window/Thu, 12 Feb 2026 00:00:00 +0000https://maroffo.github.io/blog/posts/2026-02-12-when-your-ai-skills-library-gets-too-smart-for-its-own-context-window/From token optimization to an orchestrated development workflow with Claude Code: teaching an AI your patterns is only part of the problem.https://maroffo.github.io/blog/posts/2026-02-06-i-built-an-italian-prison-monitor-in-9-days-with-ai/Fri, 06 Feb 2026 00:00:00 +0000https://maroffo.github.io/blog/posts/2026-02-06-i-built-an-italian-prison-monitor-in-9-days-with-ai/A personal project that started as “can I automate an RSS digest?” and became a full-stack monitoring platform with narrative memory, semantic search, and AI-generated editorial commentary.https://maroffo.github.io/blog/posts/2026-01-23-how-we-cut-our-go-api-latency-by-75-percent/Fri, 23 Jan 2026 00:00:00 +0000https://maroffo.github.io/blog/posts/2026-01-23-how-we-cut-our-go-api-latency-by-75-percent/A practical guide to modern Go performance patterns we applied to our feed service at Wishew. P50 latency from ~200ms to ~50ms.https://maroffo.github.io/blog/posts/2026-01-01-measuring-software-performance-what-changed-in-3-years/Thu, 01 Jan 2026 00:00:00 +0000https://maroffo.github.io/blog/posts/2026-01-01-measuring-software-performance-what-changed-in-3-years/From the SPACE Era to the AI & DevEx Revolution: a necessary update.https://maroffo.github.io/blog/posts/2025-11-30-from-skills-to-shipping-building-with-claude-as-a-pair-programmer/Sun, 30 Nov 2025 00:00:00 +0000https://maroffo.github.io/blog/posts/2025-11-30-from-skills-to-shipping-building-with-claude-as-a-pair-programmer/Another chapter in our automation journey at Wishew, where we bridge the gap between project management and development workflows, and discover what happens when your AI pair programmer actually knows your patterns.https://maroffo.github.io/blog/posts/2025-11-09-from-asking-claude-to-code-to-teaching-claude-our-patterns-building-modular-ai-skills/Sun, 09 Nov 2025 00:00:00 +0000https://maroffo.github.io/blog/posts/2025-11-09-from-asking-claude-to-code-to-teaching-claude-our-patterns-building-modular-ai-skills/The best way to work with AI isn’t to ask it to write code: it’s to teach it your patterns first.https://maroffo.github.io/blog/posts/2025-10-18-from-rubber-ducks-to-gemini-ai-powered-code-reviews-in-gitlab-ci/Sat, 18 Oct 2025 00:00:00 +0000https://maroffo.github.io/blog/posts/2025-10-18-from-rubber-ducks-to-gemini-ai-powered-code-reviews-in-gitlab-ci/A follow-up to our automation journey, where we integrate AI-powered code reviews directly into our CI/CD pipelines, and discover that Gemini is a much better conversation partner than a rubber duck.https://maroffo.github.io/blog/posts/2025-10-03-building-a-smart-ecs-deployment-notifier-with-aws-lambda-gitlab-and-slack/Fri, 03 Oct 2025 00:00:00 +0000https://maroffo.github.io/blog/posts/2025-10-03-building-a-smart-ecs-deployment-notifier-with-aws-lambda-gitlab-and-slack/How we built automated Slack notifications for ECS deployments with smart commit filtering, SSM state tracking, and Terraform IaC at Wishew.https://maroffo.github.io/blog/posts/2025-02-01-deepseek-tra-trasparenza-e-censura/Sat, 01 Feb 2025 00:00:00 +0000https://maroffo.github.io/blog/posts/2025-02-01-deepseek-tra-trasparenza-e-censura/Un test sui diritti umani in Cinahttps://maroffo.github.io/blog/posts/2023-01-09-measuring-and-improving-performance-in-software-development/Mon, 09 Jan 2023 00:00:00 +0000https://maroffo.github.io/blog/posts/2023-01-09-measuring-and-improving-performance-in-software-development/How can you tell if a development team is working effectively and meeting its objectives on time? Some insights from scientific research.https://maroffo.github.io/blog/posts/2023-01-09-misurazione-e-miglioramento-delle-performance-nello-sviluppo-software/Mon, 09 Jan 2023 00:00:00 +0000https://maroffo.github.io/blog/posts/2023-01-09-misurazione-e-miglioramento-delle-performance-nello-sviluppo-software/Come si può sapere se un team di sviluppo sta lavorando in modo efficace e se sta raggiungendo i suoi obiettivi in modo tempestivo? Qualche spunto dalla ricerca scientifica.https://maroffo.github.io/blog/about/Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000https://maroffo.github.io/blog/about/About Massimiliano Aroffohttps://maroffo.github.io/blog/search/Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000https://maroffo.github.io/blog/search/