Ship more or cut headcount: the question engineering leaders are avoiding
Kevin Hill has spent his career inside systems that don't forgive mistakes. From running Windows Error Reporting at Microsoft, where a single conflicting data point triggered an email from the president of Windows to two engineers at once, to leading engineering at Salesforce, where global enterprise infrastructure runs 24/7. He has built a specific point of view on what scale actually demands from leaders, and it's not what most engineering orgs are currently optimizing for.
In this episode with Egil, Kevin gets into why the real bottleneck in AI-assisted development isn't code generation…
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