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Nino Chavez

Chicago

Overnight Dev: From Rage-Quit to Release in 72 Hours—With AI Riding Shotgun

Overnight Dev: From Rage-Quit to Release in 72 Hours—With AI Riding Shotgun

Burned-out coder to live app in one weekend: two failed scrapers, one hidden JSON API, and AI tools that scaffolded the rest. How DevTools + GPT turned AES volleyball data into an MVP—and why your next Jira ticket might build itself.

It’s Time for the CIO 2.0

It’s Time for the CIO 2.0

Most AI conversations start in the wrong place — with tools, not capabilities. What’s missing isn’t another pilot. It’s a new executive role: someone to steward how your organization thinks, learns, and evolves.

Not Just Fast, But Together

Not Just Fast, But Together

If you want to go fast, go alone; if you want to go far, go together

Is Resilience a Systems Problem?

Is Resilience a Systems Problem?

In my last post, I wrote about the shift from shutdown to speedrun — how we’ve had to adapt, over and over again, just to keep moving. First to survive the pandemic. Now to keep up with AI.

From Shutdown to Speedrun

From Shutdown to Speedrun

The Cost of Surviving the Age of Constant Upgrades

Strength Through Repetition

Strength Through Repetition

The page isn’t the enemy. The page is the gym. You don’t show up to look good. You show up to build grip. Form. Force. Reps. That’s how the voice gets real.

Reinvention > Transformation

Reinvention > Transformation

Most reorgs I’ve seen are just corporate feng shui — shift a few boxes, rename a few titles, pretend it’s visionary. But this one? This one actually maps to something real. For once, the language isn’t just for clients — it mirrors what I’ve been doing in my own damn operating system.