“Software Engineering Leadership in Flux” by Gordon Seidoh Worley

I wasn’t able to put up a post last Wednesday because I was at the Engineering Leadership Conference here in San Francisco. The big theme was, of course, AI. Easily 90% of the presentations and 100% of the conversations touched on AI in some way. Here are some impressions I came away with:

• Everyone is scrambling. No one is confident. The people who act confident are bullshitting.

• 10-20% of teams are heavily using AI and living in the present. 80-90% are falling behind.

• The big struggle is to even start using AI coding assistant tools. Lots of teams just don’t use them at all, or use them in very limited ways. People leading these teams know they are going to lose if they don’t change but are struggling to get their orgs to let them.

• Even fewer teams have figured out how to use [...]

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First published:
September 17th, 2025

Source:
https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/EH5CSkJQG4aTvfJAJ/software-engineering-leadership-in-flux

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