Mike Luby

Mike Luby

@mikeluby.com

been building software for a minute • Brooklyn 👨‍💼 linkedin.com/in/mikeluby 🛫 planharmony.com - Trip Planning App (side project)

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Pushed a big release to Plan Harmony over the last week. Our goal is to help Travel Agents focus on what’s important, building the relationships with their clients and creating amazing experiences. Not the tedious stuff Check out the details here www.planharmony.com/blog/travel-...

planharmony.comTravel Agency Software That Actually Fits How You Work | Plan HarmonyPlan Harmony gives travel agents, tour operators, and consultants a complete agency platform — client CRM, invoicing, custom forms, white-label branding, and analytics — without the bloat of enterpris...

AI will eventually do everything you can do except the one thing that actually matters crush a drive 300 yards down the center of the fairway I mean I can't do that either but you get the point

Product managers are the context engineers for engineering teams. To truly drive AI adoption, focus not on developer workflows but on the areas where AI can be impactful before the first line of code is written.

Software engineers are natural problem solvers. Provide them with the right tools, and they will use them to make their jobs and lives easier. There is little value in forcing AI tool adoption on them.

I think of the Bill Gates quote: “I will always choose a lazy person to do a difficult job because a lazy person will find an easy way to do it.” Engineers will find the path of least resistance, as long as we provide them with the space and support to do so.

Fixed a bug. Shipped to production. All before getting out of bed. Like many engineering leaders, I still enjoy getting hands-on with side projects on weekends. This morning, I woke up to a Sentry alert.

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We’re living in such an interesting time where individual engineers, let alone teams, can move with incredible velocity when paired with the right tools and workflows. AI is a pragmatic layer of leverage in modern development.

Fixed a bug. Shipped to production. All before getting out of bed. Like many engineering leaders, I still enjoy getting hands-on with side projects on weekends. This morning, I woke up to a Sentry alert.

From my phone: • I dropped the stack trace into ChatGPT (Codex) • Reviewed the suggested fix • Opened a PR • Watched tests pass and deployed to staging • Ran a quick smoke test • Merged to main → fix auto-deployed to prod End-to-end: ~5 minutes. Just a clean pipeline, automation, and AI.

AI enhances software engineering teams, not replaces them. While AI and engineering velocity are discussed, how does it impact teams, hiring, and product delivery? I share my perspective on AI as leverage, not a replacement. www.linkedin.com/pulse/ai-isn...

linkedin.comAI Isn’t Replacing Engineers, It’s Amplifying ThemWe’re living in an incredible time for software development. With the right tools and workflows, individual engineers and entire teams can move at a pace that would’ve seemed impossible just a few yea...

I fixed a bug & deployed it this morning without getting out of bed. Woke up & saw a bug in Sentry Copied the stack trace into ChatGPT Codex Reviewed the suggestion Created PR. Tests ran & deployed to staging Smoke test on staging Merged it to main & automatically deployed it to production

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Question: How useful would it be to have a place to see trips others have planned and shared publicly for travel inspiration? Perhaps travel agents or influencers could share them, etc. I'm working on something, DM me if you want to see an early preview

Watching as many golf swing videos as I can before my tee time this morning, like I’m cramming for a final of a class I didn’t show up to all year

went for a walk to grab some coffee, had the idea to update pricing for @planharmony.com. Now upgrades are subscriptions are cheaper to drive even more conversion! 🤞 $6.99 - Single trip upgrade $9.99 - Yearly sub (unlimited trips) $0.99 - Monthly sub The math is based on ~2 trips/year

I’m worried that I’ve been in the software development industry for so long that at this point I’m addicted to anxiety and self-doubt

the sense of release & excitement when you press "merge commit" to deploy to production is fantastic then the real work begins, getting people to use the damn thing

I’m so annoyed at AWS cognito right now. I’m going to have to take down all of the infra because “email” is set as immutable & when using an external provider (e.g. Google) it tries to mutate the email attribute even though it’s literally the same value. Causing subsequent login via Google to fail

Imposter syndrome is something that I’ve wrestled with over my 20+ year career. It’s important is to not be paralyzed by it but use it as a motivation to keep learning, striving to be better tomorrow than you are today.