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# Addy Osmani

Engineering leader and senior thinker

Addy Osmani is an Irish Software Engineer and leader currently working on the Google Chrome web browser and Gemini with Google DeepMind. A developer for 25+ years, he has worked at Google for over thirteen years, focused on making the web low-friction for users and web developers. He is passionate about AI-assisted engineering and developer tools. He previously worked on Fortune 500 sites. Addy is the author of a number of books including Learning JavaScript Design Patterns, Leading Effective Engineering Teams, Stoic Mind and Image Optimization. You can try his recent apps.You can find him on LinkedIn, Twitter or TikTok. He's given over 175 talks worldwide. You can find Addy's writing on his blog, Substack and on LeadDev.

### Books

## Beyond Vibe Coding

by Addy Osmani

## Building Web Apps with Bolt

by Addy Osmani

## Building large-scale web apps

by Addy Osmani

## JS Patterns: 2nd Edition

by Addy Osmani

## Learning Patterns

by Lydia Hallie and Addy Osmani

## Success at Scale

by Addy Osmani

## Effective Eng. Teams

by Addy Osmani

## Developer Experience

by Addy Osmani

## The Stoic Mind

by Addy & GoLimitless

## SoftEng - The Soft Parts

by Addy Osmani

## Image Optimization

by Addy Osmani

## JS Design Patterns

by Addy Osmani

## Featured: SM Book 4

by Addy Osmani

## Backbone Applications

by Addy Osmani

### Case Studies

## eBay

## Netflix

## Tinder

## Pinterest

## Treebo

## YouTube

## Adobe

## Twitter



## Featured AI articles

### The 70% Problem in AI Coding
### Maximizing the Human 30%
### MCP: The Model Context Protocol
### Why I Use Cline for AI Engineering
### Leading Engineering Teams in the GenAI Era

### Avoiding Skill Atrophy in the Age of AI
### Vibe Coding is not an excuse for low-quality work
### What are AI Agents? why do they matter?
### Vibe Coding: Revolution or Reckless Abandon?
### AI-Driven Prototyping: v0, Bolt, and Lovable Compareda

## Featured thoughts

### Critical Thinking is key
### Overcome team dysfunction
### Work is a subset of life
### Coach, mentor, sponsor
### Effective engineers

Check out more of my thoughts on LinkedIn.

- ### Current projects

I am the engineering lead for Google Chrome's Developer Experience organization. Our projects include Chrome DevTools, Lighthouse, PageSpeed Insights and Chrome User Experience Report, Aurora and WordPress Performance. We recently shipped User Flows for DevTools and Lighthouse!. I also love side-projects.
- ### Open-source

Projects I've contributed to include Lighthouse, Workbox, Quicklink, Guess.js, Yeoman, HNPWA, TodoMVC, Critical and Material Design Lite. You can find more on GitHub.
- ### Podcasts

I have been on a few different podcasts recently, including PodRocket, Hanselminutes with Scott Hanselman, DevDiscuss and Smashing Podcast.
- ### Talks

Recordings of my talks are on my YouTube channel. These include Optimize the Core Web Vitals and Cost Of JavaScript. You can find some of my slides on SpeakerDeck.
- ### Blog

My latest blog posts can be found on my web.dev profile. My last post on here was: The History of Core Web Vitals

## Featured Videos

### Life Lessons
### Effective Engineering Teams
### Cost Of JavaScript

Check out more of my videos on YouTube.

## My Network

### Instagram - Motivational Quotes
### TikTok - Music
### TikTok - Motivational Tips
### YouTube - Tutorials
### Substack - Articles

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