4 Ways To Lead Meetings That Work
- Dan Rockwell tl;dr: (1) Seek feedback. (2) Eliminate the word “discuss” from agendas. (3) Expect people to state their point before they explain it. (4) Shorten one-hour meetings by 16.67%.featured in #571
Why Cohere Chose Fern To Auto-Generate And Maintain Its SDKs
tl;dr: Prior to using Fern, Cohere dealt with a classic SDK challenge. Like most dev-products, their users utilized a variety of languages. This created a design problem: each language had different type systems, primitives, and concurrency models. Read more about how Cohere was able to solve this by leveraging Fern's generators to build and maintain type-safe, idiomatic SDKs across multiple languages.featured in #571
Staff Engineer vs Engineering Manager
- Alex Ewerlöf tl;dr: Staff Engineers sit at the intersection of technical leadership and organizational impact, but their role is often misunderstood. While they share technical accountability with Engineering Managers, Staff Engineers are uniquely positioned to work across multiple teams, focusing on complex systems and technical strategy rather than people management. Alex elaborates in this post.featured in #571
Are You Shipping More With GitHub Copilot? Is More Roadmap Work Being Done?
tl;dr: Engineering leaders are trying to figure out if their team is using GitHub Copilot, how much they're using it, and its impact on their work. Download this slide deck from Jellyfish, analyzing data from 4,200+ developers at 200+ companies, and start understanding whether you're getting adequate return on your AI investments.featured in #571
Fast-Forwarding Decision Making
- James Stanier tl;dr: “I’ll pitch the takeaway up front, and it’s this: hold yourself accountable for making decisions and progressing discussions as quickly as possible, by whatever means necessary. Be restless while a decision hasn’t been made. Dead time is your enemy. Be creative about ways of shaving minutes, hours and days from a decision point.” James gives several examples of how to approach this.featured in #570
The Core Challenges of Principal Engineering
- Will Larson tl;dr: In this 20 minute video presentation, Will discusses the under-defined and ambiguous role of Principal Engineers. He defines them as engineers who solve ambiguous, company-wide problems that would otherwise block engineering executives.featured in #570
Dump The Golden Dataset: Switch To Random Sampling
- Nishant Shukla tl;dr: Golden Datasets have long been a reliable method for measuring AI prompt performance. But as AI innovation moves fast, companies need a more agile, flexible, and cost-effective solution to stay ahead of their competition. Enter random sampling of AI prompt performance—a cutting-edge approach that adapts to real-world data and drives scalable performance for QA Wolf customers. Stay ahead of the curve—watch the webinar now.featured in #570
Engineering Principles – The 5 Step Process
- Christian Scheb tl;dr: “There’s this interview with Elon Musk, showing around the SpaceX rocket production facility in Texas. There’s a lot of talk about rockets and stuff, though in between he’s giving some fascinating insights into the design process and the principles he’s following. The “5 Step Process” as he calls it. Wanted to write it up for myself, so I though I can share it here as well.”featured in #570
Engineering Principles – The 5 Step Process
- Christian Scheb tl;dr: “There’s this interview with Elon Musk, showing around the SpaceX rocket production facility in Texas. There’s a lot of talk about rockets and stuff, though in between he’s giving some fascinating insights into the design process and the principles he’s following. The “5 Step Process” as he calls it. Wanted to write it up for myself, so I though I can share it here as well.”featured in #569
Managing Impostor Syndrome As A New Engineering Manager
- Péter Szász tl;dr: “Here's an idea: what if Impostor Syndrome isn't always bad? That nagging feeling that you might miss something to be successful can actually make you a better manager - if you learn to use it right.”featured in #569