Feb 27, 2026
Building My Own Boilerplate
By Patrick Guevara
Vibe-coding made starting projects easy and maintaining them painful. So I built a Laravel & Vue boilerplate over a weekend — the old-fashioned way, with AI.
Thoughts
Ideas on leadership, systems, and applied AI
A running notebook of patterns, experiments, and perspective shifts from shipping products and leading teams.
Feb 24, 2026
What "Alignment" Actually Means on an Engineering Team
By Patrick Guevara
Alignment is overused and under-defined. Here's what it looks like when it's real versus when everyone's just nodding in a room.
Feb 20, 2026
Tradeoffs Are the Real Work of Engineering
By Patrick Guevara
Engineering decisions are rarely clear-cut. The best teams don't avoid tradeoffs — they make them explicit and choose consciously.
Feb 17, 2026
The Best Teams I've Seen Share One Trait
By Patrick Guevara
It's not talent, process, or tooling. The best engineering teams I've worked with all had one thing in common — trust.
Feb 13, 2026
How I Run 1:1s
By Patrick Guevara
1:1s are sacred on my calendar. Here's how I structure them, what I avoid, and why skip-levels matter just as much.
Feb 10, 2026
The Hidden Work of Engineering Leadership
By Patrick Guevara
Outsiders see roadmaps and launches. Most of the actual work of engineering leadership is invisible.