Jean-Philippe Leblanc

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• Personal Story — smart avg 66.1 across 8 posts (1.8× typical)
• Industry Insight — smart avg 62.8 across 29 posts (1.7× typical)
• Hiring / Recruiting — smart avg 57.3 across 12 posts (1.5× typical)
• Product Update — smart avg 47.8 across 24 posts (1.3× typical)

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• 2026-02-10 · Jean-Philippe Leblanc · Industry Insight357 eng. (239 likes · 90 comments · 28 shares)

  In 2000, rewriting software from scratch was deemed "the single worst strategic mistake that any software company can make." Netscape. They …

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• 2026-01-30 · Jean-Philippe Leblanc · Industry Insight335 eng. (264 likes · 43 comments · 28 shares)

  OpenClaw was built for your laptop, not infrastructure. OpenClaw (formerly Moltbot / Clawdbot) gained 100,000 GitHub stars and 2 million vis…

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• 2026-05-18 · Jean-Philippe Leblanc · Personal Story306 eng. (279 likes · 26 comments · 1 shares)

  Last week was my last week at CircleCI. Before I close this chapter, I want to say something that might sound counterintuitive coming from s…

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• 2026-05-27 · Jean-Philippe Leblanc · Personal Story219 eng. (199 likes · 19 comments · 1 shares)

  I joined Ada as a builder. Builder. Because that's the most honest thing I can say about how I work and what I care about. CircleCI. Lightsp…

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• 2026-02-12 · Jean-Philippe Leblanc · Celebratory Announcement189 eng. (166 likes · 12 comments · 11 shares)

  CircleCI has one environment. Production. No staging. No dev. No QA sandbox. No environment matrix to keep in sync. One environment. That's …

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