Mike Luby

If you’re curious about the project, stack, workflow, or lessons learned, happy to swap notes. Just drop me a message.

We’re living in such an interesting time where individual engineers, let alone teams, can move with incredible velocity when paired with the right tools and workflows. AI is a pragmatic layer of leverage in modern development.

From my phone:
• I dropped the stack trace into ChatGPT (Codex)
• Reviewed the suggested fix
• Opened a PR
• Watched tests pass and deployed to staging
• Ran a quick smoke test
• Merged to main → fix auto-deployed to prod

End-to-end: ~5 minutes. Just a clean pipeline, automation, and AI.

Fixed a bug. Shipped to production. All before getting out of bed.

Like many engineering leaders, I still enjoy getting hands-on with side projects on weekends. This morning, I woke up to a Sentry alert.

AI Isn’t Replacing Engineers, It’s Amplifying Them We’re living in an incredible time for software development. With the right tools and workflows, individual engineers and entire teams can move at a pace that would’ve seemed impossible just a few yea...

AI enhances software engineering teams, not replaces them.

While AI and engineering velocity are discussed, how does it impact teams, hiring, and product delivery? I share my perspective on AI as leverage, not a replacement.

www.linkedin.com/pulse/ai-isn...

🤔 built a MCP server for Plan Harmony. Is there a place I can publish it for others to use?

All of this took about 5 minutes and no laptop. Such an interesting world we live in these days.

I fixed a bug & deployed it this morning without getting out of bed.

Woke up & saw a bug in Sentry

Copied the stack trace into ChatGPT Codex

Reviewed the suggestion

Created PR. Tests ran & deployed to staging

Smoke test on staging

Merged it to main & automatically deployed it to production

Why is no one talking about iced affogatos? Iced americano with a scoop of vanilla

Listen, I love being a leader. I love the energy of my teams, getting to know so many amazing personalities, and doing the best I can to bring out the best in them. Having said that, I often miss writing code and being the nerd in the corner with headphones.

Doing some experimentation with multi-agent systems right now

quick life update, I still hate dealing with timezones

screw it, it's shipping right now 🚀

planharmony.com

Working on some in-line experience suggestion powered by Plan Harmony's AI Travel Planner

Excited to get this to everyone soon!

Question: How useful would it be to have a place to see trips others have planned and shared publicly for travel inspiration?

Perhaps travel agents or influencers could share them, etc.

I'm working on something, DM me if you want to see an early preview

Optimizing LLM-based trip planning

Optimizing LLM-based trip planning

research.google/blog/optimiz...

oh, I know this, it's engineering management

well that was an anxiety filled deploy to prod but it went off without a hitch

kabocha is the CrossFit of drinks. You only drink kabocha to tell people you drink kabocha

you always throw out the first pancake

#buildinpublic

Samesies

oh you meant disagree and commit, not disagree and git commit

Is this when all of the Cardinals put their name in the Goblet of Fire?

what a time to be building a travel based startup 🙄

fun fact about me, I have 3 foil Charizards

can you share the prompt you used?

I've been waiting for this for 20+ years...

Watching as many golf swing videos as I can before my tee time this morning, like I’m cramming for a final of a class I didn’t show up to all year

Smartest way to plan travel

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