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An architect using Claude Code took on a full-time cloud engineer's work before the role was even filled.
Artur Henriques on the gap between what leadership hears about AI and what teams actually see.
New on the Thriving In Engineering Podcast: youtube.com/watch?v=1UGh1Xrx…
Two engineers can argue about an architecture decision for an hour without either of them arguing about the architecture.
One is protecting reliability. The other is protecting a deadline.
New free guide: how managers find the real disagreement, and when to stay out of it.
ALT Two clashing starbursts, orange and navy, with the title Conflict Resolution For Engineering Managers
Most hiring advice says track time-to-fill, pass-through rates and offer acceptance. My team tracks almost none of it.
We run a short paid trial and go in looking for a reason to say no. If we can't find one, we actually know something.
Full method for paid subscribers.
ALT Card titled The Only Engineering Hiring Method That's Ever Worked For Us, with an abstract Bauhaus-style grid of navy, charcoal and pale blue blocks and one orange triangle.
Our first in-person TIE event: Lisbon, Wed Oct 21, 7–9 PM at Bloq.it. Free, for engineering leaders whose teams already use AI. Two short talks, then the room takes over. Register: luma.com/u7an4pi1?utm_source…
The engineers with the most experience trust AI-written code the least.
Limor Bergman Gross, former Director of Engineering at DigitalOcean, on why, and what to build instead of reviewing every line.
New Thriving In Engineering Podcast: youtube.com/watch?v=cZQE0hNJ…
New on Tech Team Talk 🎯
"I'd rather deal with the inefficiency I know than risk configuring something wrong."
One ops manager's line changed a devtools team's whole customer hypothesis. Skipper Chong Warson on the Bullseye Customer one-liner.
🎯 Engineer, product lead, founder. Same meeting, three different customers in their heads.
Each view makes sense. The trouble starts when roadmap calls get made from all three.
Monday on Tech Team Talk: one sentence that makes a team agree who the work is for.
Friendliness and friendship run on different rules.
A friend can refuse you without it touching their livelihood or their promotion. Someone on your team can’t.
New today: Don’t Mistake Friendliness For Friendship, on the favor that becomes a debt nobody signed up for.
Engineering leaders in Lisbon 👋
We’re bringing Thriving In Engineering offline on October 21 for an evening of talks, discussion and connecting with the local engineering community.
📍 Parque das Nações
🕖 7–9 PM
🎟️ Free
Register: luma.com/u7an4pi1
"The hardest part isn't making decisions. It's carrying them."
Gautam Govind, on becoming a Team Lead: a vague explanation can send multiple engineers in different directions. A missed dependency can block an entire sprint.
What if the most valuable skill for engineers in the AI era isn’t coding?
Our podcast guest, leadership coach Carol Palombini, makes the case for metacognition, and explains why successful AI adoption has as much to do with people as technology.
🎧 youtube.com/watch?v=GHALmNyh…
New on TIE: "Nobody Prepares You To Make Decisions Other People Execute."
Backend engineer Gautam Govind just became a Team Lead — and the hardest part wasn't the code. It was realizing every decision he makes is now someone else's work.
🧭 You spend years getting good at solving problems. Then one day the problem isn't the code anymore — it's every person who has to act on what you just said.
A backend engineer just became a Team Lead. New guest post drops Monday.
"You can't push someone into knowing something neither of you knows."
A developer once couldn't give me an estimate no matter how I explained the deadline. It wasn't a motivation problem. It was an information problem. Pressure doesn't create information. 🌧️
Lisbon, you’re invited.
First-ever in-person Thriving In Engineering event.
October 21 · 7–9 PM · Free
Two talks + a real discussion about reframing existing engineering teams for AI.
If you work in engineering in Lisbon, come join us ↓
luma.com/u7an4pi1
New piece is live: The Rain Comes In The Fall.
One of the first things I learned as an engineering manager: how little I actually knew about how my own projects would turn out.
You can't eliminate uncertainty. You can get much better at managing what happens next. 🌧️
Most of what can go wrong on a project will eventually go wrong. Not because your planning was bad — uncertainty is part of the job, same as rain in the fall. You don't need to know when it's coming. You need to know when to bring an umbrella. ☂ Drops Monday.
