Michael Lin articles - 14 total
OCR - The most impressive feature in ChatGPT-4
One of the features I’m most impressed with in ChatGPT-4 is its OCR capabilities ⬇️ I inputted a...
🤖 I Built a Customizable Chat-GPT Bot. Here’s How to Build Your Own (with screenshots)
I’ve been working on a side project lately. It’s a Chat-GPT bot that you can train to answer...
3 Engineering Mistakes That Kill Startups
I’ve been doing engineering consulting in fractional CTO roles for about a year now. And my current...
Stop Building Startups. Start Consulting Instead.
Last week, a few readers emailed me wanting to hear more about why I started a consulting business...
The Robots are Coming. Is Chat-GPT Replacing You as a Software Engineer?
When I first saw Chat-GPT, I went through the five stages of grief. First I was in shock. Then...
3 Ways to Create Luck in Your Engineering Career
I got into Netflix by going to the gym. When I worked at Amazon in Seattle, I noticed a guy at the...
Is a Lack of Role Clarity Hurting Your Engineering Team?
Engineering consulting was not what I thought it would be. As a temporary CTO, I thought I’d spend...
Build Your Brand, Not Your Business
I wanted to be a billionaire. So I did what everyone in Silicon Valley does — start a startup. Then...
Why You’re Not Getting Promoted (as an Engineer)
Engineers often try to get promoted by focusing on their technical skills. Like writing more unit...
Mo’ Code, Mo’ Problems - Engineering Advice for Non-Technical Founders
I often hear the same startup stories play out among founders. It goes like this: They quit their...
The Best Engineers Think Like Investors, Not Builders
I lived in the library during college. “The more textbook theory I studied, the better an engineer I...
How to Quit Your Tech Job (the right way)
I gave a virtual talk yesterday. It was for a career mentorship app called Taro. Rahul Pandey, one...
Why I Quit a $450,000 Engineering Job at Netflix
Golden handcuffs — when you stay at a job that you’d rather quit only for the money. I...
How to Be a 10x Software Engineer
The best engineers are 10x better than an average engineer. Like a one man army, they deliver more...