The Engineering Manager

Many of you that read my articles are operators of some kind. You may run one or many teams, or even a whole company. And, even if you are not a manager by definition, you may wield a great deal of influence over directions and decisions. In the midst of the current LLM explosion, we as operators find ourselves amongst: Note: this article is not a technical overview of how to build products with LLMs. Instead, the intent is […]

It’s more important than ever to be in the details of what’s going on in your organization. Are you? In recent years companies have been flattening, creating fewer layers of management between the top and the bottom of the org chart. This is a reversal of the rapid growth during the zero interest-rate policy (ZIRP) phase during COVID-19, which created a glut of new managers under which to slot newly hired engineers. Efficiency is the play now. Tech companies […]