Hi, I’m Enrique

October 2026 Random small talk with the little one. Kid: Daddy, who do you work with? Me: With robots! Kid: Robots? Me: Yes, I have 50 of them. I tell them what to do. Kid: And what do you do? Me: …I tell them what to do. Kid: And they still pay you? Five years old and already asking the right question about AI agents.

October 2026 A short hot take on AI, after the first year of using it at work. Yes, it’s great. There are few arguments left for fighting it, or for taking a strong position against it because of the craft. Doing my job now is close to putting on a mech suit and playing at 5x speed. It’s crazy. I love it. I’m excited. But once you’re in the express wagon of AI coding assistance, it is easy to get lost, lose direction, or start producing content that leads nowhere, that might look like progress, but is the contrary. ...

I spent a good part of my career thinking about developer experience, from building command-line tooling the right way to understanding how the Cloud model has evolved. A couple of years ago, PaaS, as embodied by Cloud Foundry, captured a simple idea for applications: developers should be able to focus on what really matters, writing code. Here is my source code, Run it on the cloud for me, I do not care how. ...

August 2026 At the time of writing this post, I have run around 3,000 km, cycled 9,000 km, and swum 400 km since 2022. This post is mostly a training log. I want to write it down so I don’t forget what the numbers represent. A couple of years ago, I decided to move away from what had been my two main forms of exercise for years: running and lifting weights. Instead, I wanted to make use of what was available around me, which meant cycling and swimming. ...

March 2026 The last post on this site is from 2020. A few things have changed since then. I stopped writing because life got loud. My children were born, and the years that followed were hard—the kind of hard that reorganises your priorities without asking. You learn quickly that responsibility doesn’t wait for ideal circumstances. That period changed me more than I expected. Not just as an engineer, but as a person. Parenting demands a different kind of attention. You slow down. You develop patience you didn’t know you needed. You find out what you’re actually made of, day after day. And despite all of it, there’s nothing more rewarding than raising little humans. ...