Strategic insights on technology leadership, engineering culture, and building great teams
Aviv Ben-Yosef's read on engineering leadership in 2026 is that the fundamentals held and the companies that removed managers because of AI regretted it. I agree, and I think the industry has found a quieter way to make the same mistake: keep the managers, hand them a coding agent, and fill every hour they had for judgement and for noticing people.
The rubric from my In The Loop talk, with enough method that you can run it yourself. Six yes-or-no questions about identity, spend, policy, observability, replay and oversight, scored on a four-point scale.
Most teams are designed on the assumption that every leader can read their people, and plenty of them can't. Distributed work did not create that problem. It stopped covering for it, and a lot of leaders found out that the office had been doing the work for them.