A great conversation on friction, influence and showing up authentically

Do Engineering Managers hold all the power?

AI agents are becoming the new OS for building, testing, and shipping software

The sense of loss will be outweighed with the joy of influence

Implement lean testing strategies that enable small teams to deliver high-quality software efficiently within resource-constrained environments.

What we should have been hiring for all along

How do we set up AI agents that are secure, reliable and trustworthy? Start with some principles.

If you didn't write it, do you own it? The role of AI Guardrails in code quality.

Automation activities, like all software development work, only matter if they contribute to real business outcomes.

Are we trading soft skills for AI fluency?

Integrate monitoring, observability, and alerting into the core quality engineering process to ensure systems are as diagnosable as they are functional

From automator to orchestrator