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

CIO

IT is not an individual sport,” says Laura Baldwin, president at O’Reilly Media. That untruth has lived for a long time but it’s going to start running out of oxygen very quickly, though there are some hard-core engineering cultures that hang on to that mystique and worship the ability to be these grumpy know-it-alls.”

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

Honeycomb

For example, right as I was transitioning into this role, I did inhumane things with my own schedule to quickly build out our SOC 2 and HIPAA compliance programs at the request of our go-to-market leaders. While I still do those things, they are no longer activities that replenish the energy I use during the workday.

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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.”. ” She offers an example of hypothetical West Coast hires who will be working with European teammates. The technical aspects of onboarding are going to happen with their teams, where leadership is really about the cultural onboarding,” Muntz says.