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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LLMs Are Already Useful
How I used Claude Code to build a GitHub backup tool I'd been putting off for years, and why LLMs are most valuable for the small internal tools you never get around to writing.
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I Built Yet Another Sandbox for AI Coding Agents — Here's Why
Why existing sandbox solutions for AI coding agents didn't work for my workflow, and how I built sandbox-claude: fully isolated Incus containers with btrfs snapshots, deploy key automation, egress filtering, and parallel agent support on macOS and Linux.
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Stop Calling LLMs "Junior Developers." They're Monkey Paws.
Why the 'junior developer' metaphor for LLMs creates dangerous expectations, and how the Monkey Paw framing from folklore leads to better decisions about autonomy, specification, and organisational governance.
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The Meme, the Agent, and the Leverage Gap
Why the real value of AI tools isn't single-step task solving but tackling entire classes of problems at scale, from managing information overload to continuous monitoring, and how to find the leverage worth closing.
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Are LLMs killing Open Source
How LLM-generated slop PRs and shrinking small libraries are reshaping open source, eroding hiring signals, and making deep domain expertise the most defensible way for developers to stand out.