Hi! I'm Pere Villega
I'm a principal engineer with over 20 years of industry experience. I provide AI and software consulting to companies. I live in Barcelona and have been working remotely or hybrid since 2014.
Recent Posts
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The Matrix Moment, and the Limits of Automation
Agent fluency can make an implausible number of projects feel possible. The final skill is not learning to automate everything; it is deciding which possibilities deserve the cost, risk, and attention.
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What an AI-Native Organisation Looks Like
An AI-native organisation is not a conventional team with more licences. Its processes, review capacity, incentives, and ownership model have to change when implementation is no longer the scarce resource.
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When Formal Verification Becomes Practical
Formal methods have traditionally been expensive specialist work. If agents can help write specifications, proof harnesses, and models, the economics may change, but proof obligations and scope still need human judgement.
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Building the Software Factory
Once agents produce most implementation code, the durable asset is the factory around them: specifications, tools, feedback, state, evaluation, and recovery. Building that factory is a different engineering job.
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The Human Coordination Ceiling
A human can supervise several agents, but attention does not scale with token spend. Past a certain point, adding workers increases queues, conflicts, and missed failures faster than useful output.