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Fix the Ladder
Growing Junior Engineers in the Age of AI
A practical field guide for engineering managers and CTOs who want the speed of AI without losing the judgement, debugging skills, and apprenticeship that grow strong engineers.
Hello, I’m Gio
I build software, grow engineers, and write down what I learn.
I’m a London-based AI and engineering lead with almost thirty years in the industry. I started by copying code from magazines, moved through mobile engineering, and somehow wrote six books along the way.
These days I’m exploring how AI changes the way we build, learn, and lead. I love the tools. I’m equally interested in the judgement we need to use them well.
From the workbench
Recent writing
- Antescher: How Ant Attack WorksAn interactive teardown of Sandy White's Ant Attack (ZX Spectrum, 1983): 4KB of hand-assembled Z80 and a 16KB city you can explore in the browser.
- A Morning Reset at Build with AI at Imperial CollegeA short reflection on the morning sessions at Build with AI at Imperial College London, where Natalia Julio-Finnan's talk cut through a bout of AI fatigue.
- How I (Almost) Implemented a Production App in a WeekendHow I went from a shiny weekend AI prototype to a production-ready app, what broke, what worked, and why the boring middle is where the real product gets built.
- Weekend Hack: Letting Ollama Sift 1,000 iOS Blogs for AI GemsA quick script that scans Dave Verwer's iOS blog directory with a local LLM to surface AI posts from the last few months.
- Where Alan Turing Walked: Google DevFest at the National Museum of ComputingReflections on Google DevFest hosted by GDG Bletchley inside the National Museum of Computing at Bletchley Park, an inspired venue where the history of computing meets today’s AI.