{"type":"rich","version":"1.0","provider_name":"Transistor","provider_url":"https://transistor.fm","author_name":"Thriving in Engineering","title":"Are Quality-First Engineers the New Dinosaurs? With Higino Silva","html":"","width":"100%","height":180,"duration":2496,"description":"Higino Silva is VP of Software Engineering at Bloq.it, the Lisbon-based company building the smart-locker software and hardware behind open parcel-locker networks for carriers including DHL eCommerce, GLS and Vinted Go. A software engineer since 1999, he previously served as CTO at Vita Mojo and CREOATE, VP of Engineering at smava, and Head of Engineering at Farfetch, and has spent the last decade-plus helping companies scale engineering without breaking under their own growth.\nThis is the Thriving in Engineering Podcast, where we talk to engineers and technical leaders about what AI is actually changing in day-to-day work, past the headlines and the hype.\nIn this conversation, we discuss:\n\nWhy he uses AI to raise the quality of engineering work rather than its volume\nHow an agent infers the requirement behind a pull request so it can be checked against the original ticket\nWhy near-zero failure tolerance in parcel logistics decides where AI is allowed in the pipeline\nHow to measure AI initiatives when the gains resist precise numbers\nHow Bloq.it Lab lets sales, marketing and operations build with Claude Code inside company guardrails\nHigino's details:\nLinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/higinosilva/\nBloq.it: https://www.bloq.it/\n📬 Looking for practical frameworks and leadership insights? Subscribe to the Thriving In Engineering newsletter: https://thrivinginengineering.substack.com/subscribe","thumbnail_url":"https://img.transistorcdn.com/Uid-VysN87mRnPdJL_jYHJQsM6vTvBygQYej9NlhGgs/rs:fill:0:0:1/w:400/h:400/q:60/mb:500000/aHR0cHM6Ly9pbWct/dXBsb2FkLXByb2R1/Y3Rpb24udHJhbnNp/c3Rvci5mbS82MTdl/Y2Q5M2NhOGMxYzBm/OGU5YjUzMmQ5MDY2/MGE3Mi5qcGc.webp","thumbnail_width":300,"thumbnail_height":300}