Hackathon Part 2: Building on the Jane AI SDK
Jane's product org teams used a week-long hackathon to build AI agents on the Jane AI SDK, tackling onboarding, insurance, charting, and more.
How We Made Rails Upgrades Manageable at Jane, Part 1
Rails upgrades don't have to be a dreaded, all-hands event. We share the repeatable framework our team uses to upgrade incrementally, shipping changes to production as we go, so the actual version switch is just an environment variable flip.
Hackathon Part 1: Jane's Company-Wide AI Hackathon
What happens when 800 people across every function — engineering, design, support, people, marketing — put their regular work down for a day and ask: what's the most annoying part of my workflow, and can I fix it with AI? On February 25th, we found out. Over 100 demos later, here's what we learned.
Beyond Boilerplate: The New Graduate Journey
My name is Jason Hughes - I'm a Talent Acquisition Manager at Jane, where I focus on technical hiring for positions across Development, Product Management and Product Design. Over the past year, I've watched the expectations for engineering positions evolve - both in what we'
Orchestrating AI Agents for Automated Team Reporting
How I built a system that generates executive-ready reports from Slack, GitHub, and Jira, without asking anyone to write a status update.
Levelling Up with Cursor: How I Turned AI into a Learning Partner
One of the biggest challenges for me wasn’t just picking up a new language or framework, it was figuring out how to learn effectively while still getting work done. That's where Cursor came in...
Integrating AI into Your Development Workflow: Part 3 - Managing Cost and Complexity
Author’s Note: I’m a Director of Engineering who’s spent the past year exploring AI coding tools with my team, and personally on nights and weekends. I’m not an AI researcher, or a full-time coder these days, but I’ve logged many hours tinkering with these assistants,
Integrating AI into Your Development Workflow: Part 2 - Workflow Recipes and Context Templates
Author’s Note: I’m a Director of Engineering who’s spent the past year exploring AI coding tools with my team, and personally on nights and weekends. I’m not an AI researcher, or a full-time coder these days, but I’ve logged many hours tinkering with these assistants,
Integrating AI into Your Development Workflow: Part 1 - Getting Started with Cursor and Agents
Author’s Note: I’m a Director of Engineering who’s spent the past year exploring AI coding tools with my team, and personally on nights and weekends. I’m not an AI researcher, or a full-time coder these days, but I’ve logged many hours tinkering with these assistants,
Less Time, More Value: My 2026 AI Mindset
“I make AI do all the things I hate doing.” That quote from a colleague pretty much sums up my mindset heading into 2026. Here’s how I’m using AI to spend *less time* on glue work and *more value* on the stuff that moves the needle.