Will Larson

@Lethain

CTO at @imprintpayments. Wrote some books.

lethain.com

Joined March 2007

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Will Larson
@Lethain
Mar 19, 2020
A lot of folks want a map to Staff Engineer, and just as many Staff Engineers want to better understand their role. Towards that end, I'm working on a small project to collect folks' stories of reaching and operating as staff-plus engineers
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Staff Engineer: Leadership beyond the management track
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Will Larson
@Lethain
18h
wrote up notes on how @ImprintPayments is adopting a self-reinforcing loop to improve correctness, anchoring on the verification pattern that @poteto has popularized. Curious what other folks are doing / what folks have found next step to be!
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Self-reinforcing quality / adopting verification pattern
After implementing the small-change pattern, Imprint Engineering’s next focus in improving our development loop has been implementing a verification loop for our software development. This is an...
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Will Larson
@Lethain
Oct 21
Love getting to chat with Gergely! Ty @GergelyOrosz 🙏
Gergely Orosz
@GergelyOrosz
Oct 21
What’s changed in “the unwritten rules” of engineering management since the 2010s, why are hands-on managers “back”, and what has it done to the engineer-to-CTO career path? With Will Larson (@Lethain). Timestamps: 00:00 Intro 08:20 Stories from Yahoo! 12:47 Digg’s v4 rewrite:
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Will Larson
@Lethain
Oct 20
I'm hiring several key, hands-on engineering managers at @ImprintPayments. We'll work closely together. We'll build a product that a surprisingly large number of folks use as their top-of-wallet credit card. We'll use agents to rethink how software teams work. ✉️will@<handle>.com
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Will Larson
@Lethain
Oct 19
How are folks evaluating Eng managers for AI abilities these days? Eg not ai engineer manager just any Eng manager. We’re doing some programming with AI, but doesn’t feel perfect…
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