jp ferreira

Writing.

Notes on AI-native engineering, governance, the strange new shape of the role, and lessons from a career that started in construction.

16 Jun 2026

The model was the easy part: shipping an AI assistant into Invitify

What it took to put a plain-language event-setup assistant in front of real users - the guardrails, the gates, the one rule it could never break, and why almost none of the work was about the model.

21 May 2026

What construction project management taught me about shipping software

Eighteen years on construction sites before I wrote production code. Software is a younger industry than it thinks, and the gaps show in the places construction figured out a long time ago.

13 May 2026

AI assists, humans decide: building review workflows that don't rot

How I designed AI-assisted PR review - and why the hardest part wasn't the tooling, it was keeping humans genuinely accountable.

// coming soon

Coming soon

On being a polyglot engineer in a language-loyal industry

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