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#### Latest

### The brilliant jerk is back

Tech is betting big on “challenging-but-brilliant” engineers.

- Kelli Korducki

- ### How to go back to being a technical engineering manager

A guide for getting back to hands-on management.

- Vaidehi Joshi
- ### Shadow AI is leaving software teams dangerously exposed

Two thirds of organizations report exploits involving vulnerable LLM code.

- Carly Page

#### Conference talks

### All the things I misunderstood about being a leader

Candid insights into the biggest misconceptions about leadership and what truly makes a team exceptional.

- Jason Lengstorf

### Leading sustainably when everything is on fire

Learn how to lead effectively in chaos by building organizational capital and adapting your mindset for tough times.

- Denise Yu

### Plugging in power: Understanding how tech careers are shaped by power dynamics

Explore how hidden power dynamics shape tech careers and learn to recognize, navigate, and harness power to advance effectively.

- Anil Dash

### Lessons from the other side: What your VP is actually thinking

Learn how to build a partnership with your VP by sharing unfiltered reality and gaining the context you need.

- Kelly Moran

### The magic of crisis

Discover how Staff+ engineers can use moments of crisis to drive lasting technical change and strengthen organizational systems.

- Carla Geisser

### FORTRAN’s AI Playbook: Leadership lessons from history

Learn proven leadership strategies from FORTRAN’s history to successfully adopt AI, upskill teams, and drive lasting transformation at scale

- Anjuan Simmons

### Theory to action: Architecting and implementing your team operating system

Learn the theory behind the operating systems of high-performing engineering teams. Leave with a practical idea of how to design a flexible team operating system with rhythms, tools, and feedback loops for your team.

- Meg Adams

#### Reports

In partnership with Honeycomb

### The Engineering Performance Report 2025

We asked 400 engineering leaders how they are measuring the performance of their systems and the impact AI is having on that performance.

In partnership with O’Reilly

### The Engineering Team Performance Report 2025

We asked 500 engineering leaders how and why they measure their team’s performance. Here’s what we found.

In partnership with DX

### The AI Impact Report 2025

Read the full report to learn how AI adoption is impacting developers, budgets, processes, and talent pipelines.

### The Engineering Leadership Report 2025

We asked 600+ engineering leaders how their roles are changing in response to a rapidly changing economic landscape. Here’s what we found.

#### Upcoming panel discussions

- ### The database risks you can’t afford to ignore

From compliance breaches to fragile legacy databases, ignore these blinking red lights at your peril
- In partnership with Cloudflare

### Embrace AI without losing control

How do engineering leaders move at AI speed without losing control and increasing delivery and security risks? You can do both.
- In partnership with Harness

### Testing your system limits in the age of AI

Facing more code than ever, learn the resiliency best practices used by SREs, including where AI can help
- In partnership with Gitkraken

### Measuring the AI impact on developer experience

How to measure the impact of AI tools and agents on developer experience, and link this back to the business
- In partnership with Mabl

### Are you ready for agentic testing?

AI agents are no longer hypothetical — but are you ready to give them the keys to your test suite?

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#### Must read

### Do junior devs still have a path to senior roles in an AI age?

LeadDev’s AI Impact Report 2025 explores the challenges and opportunities for early-career engineers as AI transforms coding, mentorship, and skill development.

- Chantal Kapani

### How to be a successful async advocate in an RTO world

Building an async-first culture is surprisingly straightforward in an RTO era.

- Michael Tempest

### Digital nomads find themselves at a crossroads

We checked in with four software developers who chose this path.

- Kelli Korducki

### Digital nomads find themselves at a crossroads

We checked in with four software developers who chose this path.

- Kelli Korducki

### How to boost your management impact with AI tools

Developers got their AI moment. It is time engineering managers had theirs too.

- Gaurav Nanda

## On our LeadDev playlist

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### Make it count; A no-nonsense guide to engineering metrics for the busy leader

Gain practical insights on engineering metrics that help busy leaders prioritize effectively, address delivery challenges, and measure team performance to maximize impact and productivity.

Conference

### Behind the scenes scaling ChatGPT

Evan Morikawa gives you a behind the scenes look at how we scaled ChatGPT and the OpenAI APIs. A story about staying nimble enough to release new capabilities and to respond quickly to a rapidly changing industry.

Conference

### Shopify’s remote working toolbox

This talk presents Shopify’s remote working toolbox, which is a collection of learnings, best practices and ideas for other leaders that are wishing to work and attract talent globally, but must fundamentally shift their culture to do so.

Conference

### Career vectors for technical leaders

Mix and match skills to become the best technical leader that you can be.

In partnership with O’Reilly

### The metrics you loved to hate in 2024

And other key findings from the 2024 LeadDev Engineering Team Performance report.

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