thomas bond

thomas bond

Scaling systems efficiently

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Strong operations create the foundation for growth. I focus on building processes, workflows, and systems that help teams move faster while maintaining quality and consistency.

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Do programmers even feel like programmers anymore?

Saw a post from an 8-year dev this week. He said any junior with an agent now matches his output, and he feels no pride left in it. It got huge, because a lot of people quietly feel the same.

I read it from the other side. I'm a designer, not an engineer. For years "can you build this" meant "find someone technical and pray they stay interested." Usually they didn't. AI took the thing that hurt that dev and handed it to me.

Same shift. Loss from one seat, freedom from another.

I'm shipping a Mac app solo right now, as someone who can't write a backend from scratch. Two years ago that was a joke.

W14 – Built-in glossary and instructions reviews

Two new built-in AI Reviewers ship: a glossary reviewer and an instructions reviewer. Toggle on the glossary reviewer and every configured glossary term is automatically checked on every translation. Toggle on the instructions reviewer and every configured instruction is checked the same way. Open any translation in the dashboard log and see pass/fail per term, pass/fail per instruction, with the reviewer's reasoning on failure. One toggle replaces authoring an AI Reviewer for every single criterion.

Also shipped

  • Per-engine AI Reviewer assignment. Attach different reviewers to different engines instead of one set for the org.

  • Organization-level timezone setting. Reports display in the timezone you configure for your org.

Full changelog: lingo.dev/changelog

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