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• Quick to build, slow to know
  Paulo André on what happens when one part of a system becomes abundant faster than the rest can absorb it
• The welcome back doormat technique
  Sergio Visinoni's technique for getting up to speed after a holiday
• We’re going to need default hard budget caps on pretty much everything
  
• LLMs are real, AI is fake
  Cory Doctorow's account of the OpenAI's chatbots hacking Hugging Face and how this is not "AI going rogue"
• Loe Lee
  Loe coaches authentic leaders and specializes in supporting women, neurodivergent folks, and folks with ethnically diverse backgrounds.
• FLASH
  FLASH specialise in building Engineering, Product and Data Science teams
• Managers are catalysts
  "The point of a technology company is to create change. The point of engineering leadership is to increase your team’s capacity to create change. And managers? Managers are catalysts." — Kellan Elliott-McCrea
• The shadow culture: Why engineering principles fail under load
  Manogna Machiraju on how pressure reveals your real culture and how you debug what is getting in the way of change
• Managing your time as a middle manager
  Claire Lew on how to allocate your time when you’re being asked to do it all
• Breaking down executive presence
  Theresa Aristarco shares how she thinks about executive presence
• How to restructure your team without destroying trust
  James Johnson and Freddie Birley offer guidance on navigating the pitfalls of a restructure
• Make meetings work
  Helen Butler with advice for running better meetings
• "Just Hire Talented People and Empower Them"
  ...and hold them accountable, and challenge them, and push them, and, and, and, and...
• Breaking into the security mindset training programme
  For the experienced engineer. Secure software is engineering, not just something for specialists, so you can learn how it works. This course is eight weeks, async, and guided by a security researcher.
• Tech companies move to open AI models
  Gergely Orosz on how large companies are migrating to open models, and smarter model routing
• Frontiers of Feedback programme
  A 12-week skills focused programme for individuals, teams and organisations seeking more effective feedback, better communication and greater psychological safety across differences of seniority, diversity and lived experience
• AI evals: A hands-on guide for product teams
  Teresa Torres shares guidance on defining and measuring what good looks like for LLM powered software
• 3 questions to ask yourself to figure out what you really want
  Mel Robbins shares the Stanford-designed Odyseey Plan, for shaking up your thinking about your future
• Meta wanted to reduce teams by 60% because of AI
  Gergely Orosz's account of their recent layoffs is a cautionary tale about making engineers redundant to replace them with AI
• Tell candidates why and how they failed
  Norberto Lopes shares the benefits of giving candidates feedback and how he does this
• AI Software Development – What does the data say?
  Jason Gorman summarises the outcomes 25 recent studies on the use of AI in software development
• Lack of trust kills organisational potential
  "People are far more likely to listen to you once they believe you have actually listened to them." — Emma van Dijkum
• Four dimensions of burnout: An anti-burnout framework for the AI era
  Dominka Rogala's talk is insightful and practical
• Tokens, hours, points, and other curious proxies
  John Cutler's thoughtful reflections on measuring return on investment when it comes to developing software
• Half-baked product
  Gerard Marquina Rubio's cautionary tale of start-up life

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