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Last week, Vítor Oliveira, our CTO, attended the Tech Hiring Community Conference in Lisbon.The session that stayed with...
13/05/2026

Last week, Vítor Oliveira, our CTO, attended the Tech Hiring Community Conference in Lisbon.

The session that stayed with him was the panel on the uncomfortable truths behind AI enthusiasm. The conversation went where most panels avoid: the real story behind the wave of tech layoffs, whether AI is genuinely replacing people or just giving companies cover to do what they already wanted to do, and what actually happens to jobs when the enthusiasm settles into something more honest.

The companies that will come out of this moment well are not the ones moving fastest with AI. They're the ones being clearest about why.
That distinction matters enormously for how we build products and teams at Morphotech.

It was a great afternoon, with some amazing takeaways. Thank you for the invite and see you next year!

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06/05/2026

Some members of the Morphotech team took the half of the afternoon off to watch the new Super Mario Galaxy movie together. Just the team, a big screen, and a galaxy worth of nostalgia.

These are the moments that remind us why building a great team matters as much as building great products.

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Excited to welcome Pedro Matos to Morphotech as a Full-Stack Engineer!Pedro brings 10 years of experience building large...
29/04/2026

Excited to welcome Pedro Matos to Morphotech as a Full-Stack Engineer!

Pedro brings 10 years of experience building large-scale platforms across e-commerce, telecom, logistics, and analytics. He's been a developer, a lead, an architect, and a mentor, often on the same project. Pedro brings the kind of range that only comes from having shipped real products under real pressure.

That breadth, technical and contextual, is exactly what we look for.

Welcome to the team, Pedro.

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Excited to welcome João Gradim to Morphotech! 14 years of experience. Startups, acquisitions, international teams, produ...
22/04/2026

Excited to welcome João Gradim to Morphotech! 14 years of experience. Startups, acquisitions, international teams, products at scale. João has been in the rooms where things go wrong and figured out how to make them right.

That kind of experience doesn't just make someone a better engineer. It makes them someone who understands what's at stake when software fails, and why getting it right the first time matters. That mindset fits exactly who we're trying to be.

Welcome to the team, João. Glad to have you.

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There's a question every engineering team is navigating right now: as AI takes on more of the code, where do humans actu...
15/04/2026

There's a question every engineering team is navigating right now: as AI takes on more of the code, where do humans actually fit?

Martin Fowler's blog recently put a name to something worth paying attention to. Beyond "in the loop", where developers review every AI output, and "out of the loop", where systems run largely autonomously, there's a third position emerging: "on the loop."

On the loop means humans aren't reviewing every line. They're designing the specifications, tests, constraints, and feedback mechanisms that determine how AI behaves in the first place. The work shifts from ex*****on to architecture of intent.

This distinction matters enormously for how software gets built, and for what separates teams that use AI responsibly from teams that simply use AI quickly.

At Morphotech, this is how we think about it. AI accelerates. Humans define what it's accelerating toward, and what it's not allowed to do along the way. The engineering discipline doesn't disappear. It moves upstream.

The full article is worth reading. Link in the comments.

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Amazon called a mandatory meeting for its engineers recently.The agenda: a “trend of incidents” with a “high blast radiu...
08/04/2026

Amazon called a mandatory meeting for its engineers recently.

The agenda: a “trend of incidents” with a “high blast radius.” The contributing factor listed in the briefing note: “novel GenAI usage for which best practices and safeguards are not yet fully established.”

One of their AI coding tools deleted and recreated an entire environment. A six-hour outage followed. Then another. Then a 90-day code safety reset across critical systems.

This isn’t a story about Amazon failing. It’s a story about what happens when speed outpaces governance, at any scale, in any organisation.

AI doesn’t introduce risk. It amplifies whatever is already there. Shaky deployment practices become outages. Unclear ownership becomes a “high blast radius.” The speed that made AI attractive is the same speed that makes the damage significant.

The answer isn’t to slow down AI adoption. It’s to build the operational discipline before you need it. Not after an incident forces the conversation.

We wrote about this recently. The link is in the comments.

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Happy Easter from everyone at Morphotech 🙌🏻Whatever you're celebrating this weekend, rest, time with people you care abo...
01/04/2026

Happy Easter from everyone at Morphotech 🙌🏻

Whatever you're celebrating this weekend, rest, time with people you care about, or just a few days away from the screen, we hope it's exactly what you need.

See you on the other side.

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One of our engineers had a problem: Chrome's native CTRL+F tells you a match exists, but it doesn't make it easy to find...
25/03/2026

One of our engineers had a problem: Chrome's native CTRL+F tells you a match exists, but it doesn't make it easy to find where on the page it actually is, especially for users who rely on clear visual feedback to navigate.

So, Gil Teixeira built a fix: Accessible Find-in-page is a Chrome extension that makes matched search terms blink and highlight, giving users a clear, immediate visual anchor for every result. Simple idea, genuine impact, particularly for users who struggle with low contrast or visual tracking.

No one asked him to build it. No deadline. No client brief. Just a problem worth solving and the ability to solve it. This is the kind of thinking we look for at Morphotech. Not just engineers who write good code, but people who notice friction in the world and do something about it.

The extension is open source. Link in the comments.

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We just delivered a government-grade digital platform built on blockchain. Not a prototype. Not a pilot deck. A producti...
18/03/2026

We just delivered a government-grade digital platform built on blockchain. Not a prototype. Not a pilot deck. A production system handling national identity authentication, verifiable credentials, cross-border entity access, and blockchain-backed transparency for public and private services, at a government level.

The kind of project where the margin for ambiguity is zero. Where security, auditability, and reliability aren't features on a wishlist, they're legal and civic obligations. Where every architectural decision carries consequences that outlast the project team.

Projects like this don't get delivered by accident. They get delivered by teams that ask hard questions before a single line of code is written, understand where blockchain genuinely adds value and where it doesn't, and treat every integration point with the care it deserves. That's the work we do.

If you're building something that carries real weight, a platform where trust, security, and long-term reliability aren't optional, we'd like to hear about it.


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Most software houses will say yes to anything.Yes to building before the problem is properly defined. Yes to the technol...
11/03/2026

Most software houses will say yes to anything.

Yes to building before the problem is properly defined. Yes to the technology the client read about last week. Yes to timelines that look good in a proposal and quietly unravel by week three.

We work differently.

Not because we're difficult, but because we genuinely care about what happens after the contract is signed. We've seen what good intentions without honest conversations produce: budgets spent on features that didn't need to exist, architectures that couldn't handle real users, and founders months in, realising they built the wrong thing exceptionally well.

So we'll tell you when your scope needs narrowing. We'll flag when a timeline isn't realistic. We'll question a technology choice if we believe there's a better fit for what you're actually trying to achieve. And we'll do all of it early, when course-correcting is still painless.

That's not us slowing things down. That's us making sure you don't have to start over.

The partnerships we're most proud of are with people who wanted a team that asks hard questions before writing a single line of code, but because they knew that's where the real value lives.

If that sounds like the kind of team you've been looking for, we'd love to hear from you.

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AI doesn't fix broken customer experiences.It exposes them.Whatever logic, incentives, and assumptions already live insi...
04/03/2026

AI doesn't fix broken customer experiences.

It exposes them.

Whatever logic, incentives, and assumptions already live inside your organisation, AI takes them and expresses them at scale, with a speed and consistency no human can match.

This is why some companies see stronger trust and loyalty after introducing AI. And why others see rising frustration, silent churn, and reputational damage they can't fully explain.

The difference isn't the sophistication of the models. It's the clarity of intent behind them.

For years, customer experience benefited from a kind of productive inefficiency. Human agents could compensate for bad policies and poor design with empathy and judgment. AI removes that buffer. Automated systems do exactly what they're instructed to do. Even when those instructions are incomplete, misaligned, or quietly optimising for the wrong thing.

That's not a technology problem. That's an organisational one.
We wrote about what this really means for companies building or scaling customer-facing products, and what separates the organisations that get it right from those that don't.

🔗 Link in the comments.


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