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I’m Hoang Nguyen, VP of Engineering at ShopBack, with more than a decade of building software and leading teams. I write about software engineering, leadership, and AI coding agents, and send each new post to my newsletter.
Latest post
Build the agent around where the work happensHow ShopBack put domain AI agents in Slack, where work already arrives: how the setup evolved, how usage grew, and the lessons for engineering leaders.
· 13 min read
Previous posts
- What I told an engineer who asked if AI will replace us
An engineer asked me if we can be replaced now that Claude Code automates most of their work. What changes, what stays, and where to put your effort.
· 8 min read
- What Black October means for every engineering team
PHP2Shell, LiteLLM, and AI-driven attacks in one week. Why the time to exploit has collapsed, and the security push I would run with engineering teams now.
· 4 min read
- Agentic engineering runs on boring foundations
How multi-tenancy, service consolidation, governed data access, and verification workflows became the foundation for agentic engineering.
· 12 min read
- AI coding agent session compaction with Jev
How AI DevKit compacts coding agent sessions with Jev typed decisions so manager, executor, and reviewer agents hand off state instead of raw transcripts.
· 8 min read
- MCP vs Skills
Will skills replace MCP? Why agent skills are the instruction layer and MCP is the integration layer, where the two overlap, and how they work together.
· 5 min read
- How I run AI coding agents as a team with AI DevKit
How I run AI coding agents as a team with AI DevKit: a manager agent delegating to Codex and Claude Code executors, Telegram, skills, and shared memory.
· 11 min read