<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?><rss version="2.0"><channel><title>Marlon Brandão de Sousa</title><description>Marlon Brandão de Sousa — software engineer working in payments and financial systems, blind developer, and digital accessibility advocate. Blog, open-source projects, and NVDA add-ons.</description><link>https://marlon-sousa.com/</link><item><title>The gap between what you said and what you meant</title><link>https://marlon-sousa.com/blog/the-gap-between-what-you-said-and-what-you-meant/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://marlon-sousa.com/blog/the-gap-between-what-you-said-and-what-you-meant/</guid><description>Extrapolation is the whole reason you use an agent, and the whole risk of using one, because they are the same mechanism. So the question is never how to stop it — it is where it should be wide and where it must be narrow.</description><pubDate>Thu, 13 Aug 2026 22:00:00 GMT</pubDate><category>ai engineering</category><category>ai</category><category>software engineering</category><category>You are now the whole team</category></item><item><title>The terminal I could not build</title><link>https://marlon-sousa.com/blog/the-terminal-i-could-not-build/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://marlon-sousa.com/blog/the-terminal-i-could-not-build/</guid><description>The thing I wanted for years and could not afford to build, what it sounds like when a terminal is navigable by heading, and why I still did not start by asking an agent to write it.</description><pubDate>Thu, 13 Aug 2026 21:00:00 GMT</pubDate><category>ai engineering</category><category>ai</category><category>accessibility</category><category>nvda</category><category>rust</category><category>You are now the whole team</category></item><item><title>At long last, only an engineer</title><link>https://marlon-sousa.com/blog/at-long-last-only-an-engineer/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://marlon-sousa.com/blog/at-long-last-only-an-engineer/</guid><description>We were always the engineer and the bricklayer, because in software putting the walls up is itself an ultra-qualified job. Something else can lay the bricks now — which does not make you less of an engineer, it makes you only an engineer.</description><pubDate>Thu, 13 Aug 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><category>ai engineering</category><category>ai</category><category>software engineering</category><category>You are now the whole team</category></item><item><title>Welcome</title><link>https://marlon-sousa.com/blog/welcome/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://marlon-sousa.com/blog/welcome/</guid><description>Why this site exists, what I am going to write here, and what I will do if any of it breaks for you.</description><pubDate>Thu, 06 Aug 2026 14:00:00 GMT</pubDate><category>accessibility</category><category>writing</category></item></channel></rss>