Jecho Carlos
Software Engineer
Highly-opinionated individual with over 10 years of experience developing and supporting software. I make sure stakeholders get what they need from both a technical and business perspective.
lately
- ·Aggressively picking up new skills
- ·Cycling around Metro Manila — building mileage and getting fitter
- ·Tasting specialty coffees and discovering cafes around the metro
work
featured
Hanko: Coffee Passport
Passport-style companion app for coffee lovers to collect stamps from local cafés.
Tagomoto: Home Organizer
A calm iOS notebook for turning places, routes, and personal memories into simple hand-drawn grid maps. https://tagomoto.jechocarlos.dev/
Taskmaster
Infrastructure for turning a product vision into an engineering plan scoped to what your team can realistically deliver.
off-hours
notes
The new full-stack is product + engineering
29 Apr 2026
When Claude handles the system and Codex handles the surface, the old full-stack is commodity. What's left is the human work: empathy, culture, taste, touching grass, and the humility to ship, listen, and kill your darlings.
Claude is for entreprise-grade, Codex is for UI/UX + state mngt work
21 Apr 2026
After using Claude end-to-end on Hanko: Coffee Passport, I realized Codex is the sharper tool for UI/UX, state management, and PO review. A small shift in workflow, but a meaningful one.
Hello, World
17 Apr 2026
First post. Setting up this space for thoughts on AI, software development, and everything in between.