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Is the power of people skills enough to keep gen AI in check?

CIO

Higher-level languages, automation, low-code and no-code development platforms, and better programming environments have been gradually reducing the need for IT staff to perform low-level, routine tasks for years so they can take on more innovative challenges. IT is not an individual sport,” says Laura Baldwin, president at O’Reilly Media.

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Leading Remote and Distributed Engineering Teams – Top Takeaways from the Panel

Gitprime

Engineering is still a human sport at the end of the day.”. Neither extreme allowed her teams to perform consistently or efficiently. “I The technical aspects of onboarding are going to happen with their teams, where leadership is really about the cultural onboarding,” Muntz says.

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On Becoming a VP of Engineering, Part 2: Doing the Job

Honeycomb

This is particularly hard on engineering teams, where we always have to balance multiple priorities: security, reliability, performance, UX, shipping new features, iterating on existing features, internal developer experience, maintainability/tech debt, quality, scaling, etc.