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23 articlesScaling Synthesis Coding in Your Organization
A practical guide for CTOs and engineering leaders: cost analysis, team rollout strategy, training curriculum, and metrics for adopting synthesis coding at s...
Building ownwords: A Synthesis Coding Case Study
What separates synthesis coding from vibe coding isn''t the tools — it''s the decisions. This technical case study walks through the architectural choices,...
Why Synthesis Coding Still Writes Code in the Age of LLMs
The answer is not "just let the model do it" — and code matters more, not less, as AI gets dramatically better Last spring, my son Fitz and I had an aftern...
Polyrepo Synthesis: Synthesis Coding Across Multiple Repositories with Claude Code in Visual Studio Code
I wrote this blog post for software engineers, architects, and technical leads. It is code-heavy and implementation-focused. This weekend I was working acr...
Seventeen years ago, I built a tool for the open Web. This weekend, I modernized it using Synthesis Coding with Claude Code AI
In 2008, I released a WordPress plugin called Blogroll Links. The plugin displayed lists of links on WordPress pages using a shortcode. But the idea behind...
Synthesis Coding with Claude Code: Technical Implementation and Workflows
A hands-on guide to practicing synthesis coding (a.k.a. synthesis engineering) with concrete examples, real workflows, and lessons from production systems ...
The Synthesis Engineering Framework: How Organizations Build Production Software with AI
From individual practice to organizational capability: a systematic approach to human-AI collaboration in professional software development This blog post ...
Synthesis Engineering: The Professional Practice Emerging in AI-Assisted Development
Why the most effective engineering organizations are developing systematic approaches that go beyond vibe coding — and why this practice needs a name This ...
The Economics of Starting Fresh in the Age of Generative AI
The CFO leans back in her chair, reviewing the latest AI transformation proposal. "Why are we spending millions on AI when we already have systems that wo...
The CTO and chief product officer in the Age of Generative AI: A New Playbook for Technology Leadership
Last week, I watched an AI agent debug a production issue, write a fix, create comprehensive tests, and deploy the solution—all while the product and tech ...
Cloudflare TV: The CTO Show
Cloudflare‘s CTO, John Graham-Cumming, interviewed Rajiv for the The CTO Show on CloudFlare TV. The CTO role varies enormously from company to company. In ...
My new job at Hearst
Hearst Press Release Rajiv Pant Named General Manager of Technology Platforms and Chief Technology and Product Officer of Hearst Magazines, Hearst Autos, a...
How to be an effective CTO
A CTO's job combines Culture, Technology, and Operations. Each of the three is necessary; a field of knowledge, experimentation, and learning in itself; an...
90 Day Plan for a CTO in a New Job
Starting as a CTO in a new organization is like conducting an orchestra you've never heard before. You need to understand the musicians, learn the repertoi...
Mark Thompson, President & Chief Executive Officer, The New York Times Company
Mark Thompson wrote this recommendation for Rajiv on April 13, 2016: Rajiv is a very strong digital executive with rock solid credentials in both engineeri...
Erin Grau, Program Director, Web Products, The New York Times
Erin Grau shared this recommendation for Rajiv on Oct 21, 2015 via LinkedIn: Some of Rajiv's contributions to a technical organization are obvious and shar...
Brad Kagawa, Vice President of Technology, Content Management Systems at The New York Times
Brad Kagawa shared this recommendation for Rajiv on July 23, 2015 via LinkedIn: Rajiv is a different kind of CTO. While he always has valuable input on arc...
CTO Mind Map: Culture, Technology, Operations
In the role of chief technology officer, you have to be concerned with many topics. Some relate to functions you have direct supervisory responsibility for...
3 Roles of a CTO: Culture. Technology. Operations.
This is a guide for CTOs, VPs of Software Engineering and other technology managers responsible for a software engineering organization. The purpose of thi...
Landmark CIO Summit 2014
At the Landmark CTO Summit 2014, Rajiv spoke with Rhonda Vetere, Chief Technology Officer – Estee Lauder and Abe Cytryn, Chief Technology Officer – Time In...
Video Technology: Eye on the Future hosted by The Center for Communication
Rajiv spoke at the seminar titled Video Technology: Eye on the Future hosted by The Center for Communication (cencom.org). The Center for Communication is ...
Moving to Atlanta
I look forward to living in Atlanta, a major city in the southeastern state of Georgia. I will, however, miss being around my friends in the the Philadelph...
Newspaper Association of America (NAA)’s Conferences
Rajiv spoke on CTO panels at the Newspaper Association of America (NAA)'s conferences. In NEXPO 2002 and 2003, he spoke about technology and business topics ...