We gave our engineers AI tools: Half the team barely scratched the surface

Access alone doesn’t create adoption. Here’s how we used data, communities, training, and skills marketplace distribution to get the productivity gains everyone dreams of. We rolled out Claude Code, Cowork, and GitHub Copilot months ago in our engineering teams, hoping to get the productivity boosts everyone talks about. Some engineers […]

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Leveraging goal-setting to scale your impact as your team grows

The limits of individual contribution as an engineering leader When your engineering organization grows, the way you lead must evolve. When I managed a few teams, I relied on being close to the work: attending daily stand-ups, reviewing specifications, monitoring alert channels, scheduling post-mortems, and facilitating retrospectives. If something was […]

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Mastering AI Automation: My learnings from a year of experiments & WordPress Testing

How to Build AI-Powered Workflows and Systems In 2025, I’ve read countless LinkedIn posts about how some CTOs have fully transitioned their tech departments to be AI-based, with agents working all night for you to push to production in the morning. I also had numerous conversations with engineering leaders regarding […]

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“AI-driven QA: How LLM, MCP and Playwright facilitate WordPress E2E testing” at WordCamp Netherlands 2025

On November 28th, 2025, I presented “AI-driven QA: How LLM, MCP, and Playwright facilitate WordPress E2E testing” at WordCamp Netherlands. The talk included several live demos based on a WordPress theme available in this GitHub repository. WC Netherlands 2025 – AI-driven QA par Mathieu Lamiot

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