Engineering leadership, in practice
I'm Marco Poletto, an engineering leader writing about org design, delivery, and the human side of technology.
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This site was built with an AI coding agent. The interesting part isn't how fast it went - it's the moments I overrode it, and what those moments actually have to do with engineering leadership.
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A strategy that says yes to everything is just a to-do list with ambitions. The core skill of a senior engineering leader isn't picking what to build - it's deciding, out loud, what you won't.
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The skills that made you a great engineering manager quietly become liabilities the day you start leading other managers.
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Teams are hiring fewer juniors because AI does the grunt work now. But that grunt work was the apprenticeship.
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A struggling manager rarely announces it - the team does, quietly, months before it hits a dashboard.
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