The Engineering Manager

Read about AI opinion online and you get two camps: those who believe it will fundamentally reshape how software gets built, and those who see it as useful tooling but doubt the transformative claims being made around it. Neither side has a monopoly on insight, and both can point to real evidence (or lack thereof). I’ve watched this split play out everywhere over the last six months: in conversations with other engineering leaders, in how […]

This month, we’re going to explore a practical technique for learning from leaders you’ll never have access to: distilling their thinking into an AI role you can query on demand. Throughout history, those who’ve succeeded the most have often had something in common: access to the best people, whether as mentors, advisors, or sounding boards. That access has always been scarce and unevenly distributed. But now there’s an opportunity to democratise it: you can create […]