Engineering-Leadership

What a Time to Be Alive

One of the untold stories of the AI revolution is how fun it is to build stuff again. A note on homelabs, work agents, and feeling technical again after a decade in management.

Cartoon robot at a laptop shouting 'Enhance! Optimize! Ship it!' while a StackHawk hawk flies overhead and startled engineers look on — with an 'AI Fuel' jar of jellybeans and a +8x badge.

How StackHawk Adopted AI to Drastically Accelerate Development

Nine months of going all-in on AI-assisted development at StackHawk: the ramp-up, the custom tooling, and what actually made it stick.