Federico Ramallo

@framallo

Founder @densitylabs. Host of The PreVetted Podcast (170+ episodes). Author of economic fables for kids and The Invisible Distance. Left Argentina in 2008.

Guadalajara, MX

ramallo.io

Born 1982

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Federico Ramallo
@framallo
Aug 26
The senior engineer you want doesn't just close tickets. They own the outcome: they catch the requirement that's wrong, the metric nobody watches, the failure mode no one scoped. That judgment is the job.
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Federico Ramallo
@framallo
Aug 25
Distributed teams don't fail on time zones. They fail on the assumptions nobody wrote down. The distance that hurts isn't the hours between you, it's the context that never got shared.
Federico Ramallo
@framallo
Aug 24
An eval set is the cheapest insurance in AI engineering and the first thing teams skip. Fifty labeled examples you actually trust will teach you more than a month of vibes-based prompt tweaking.
Federico Ramallo
@framallo
Aug 24
Your AI feature works great at 10 requests. The real failures start at 10,000: rate limits, retries stacking, costs that stop being linear, latency nobody load-tested. Production is a different feature than the demo.
Federico Ramallo
@framallo
Aug 20
Before you greenlight a six month AI build, spend two weeks answering one question: what does this system do when it's wrong? If you can't answer that, you're not scoping a product, you're scoping a demo.