Francesco Montelli
Software Engineer · distributed systems
AI today writes code the way robots assemble cars: fast, at scale, tirelessly. But no one lets a robot design the chassis or sign off on the brakes. That part is still a human responsibility.
Who I am
I started working in 2016 while still studying. I learned almost everything on my own and, over time, developed a precise idea of how software should be built. Not an idea about technologies: those change. An idea about method: what comes first, what comes after, and why the order is not negotiable.
I work with growing teams that start to feel something cracking. My ultimate goal is to make myself useless: the system shouldn't depend on me to keep working.
Registered with the Italian Order of Engineers
When I sign off, I'm the one accountable. No company behind me.
The blog as an extension of the method
I write the kind of articles I would have wanted to find before making a decision. Not summaries of documentation: real cases, tradeoffs made explicit, things I learned by getting them wrong first. If you want to check whether what I claim matches what I do, the blog is the place.
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