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

Gitprime

Making sure that leadership teams are in the loop and aligned and ready to answer questions before the rest of the individual contributors get the information has been super helpful for us.”. Engineering is still a human sport at the end of the day.”. Without that, trust breaks down, communications break down.

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

Honeycomb

Sports and athletic activities, non-work-related reading, creating art, time with friends and family, immersion in nature, religious services, quiet contemplation, and non-tech volunteer work are the most effective ways to refresh myself now. While this new public role can be disorienting, nonetheless there’s an aspect of it that is fair.