The Future of Engineering Leadership in the Age of AI

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"In the next 10-15 years, I'm either going to be a CTO cleaning up after AI, or maybe there won't be people like me anymore because we're just going to write the specs and generate the whole app from scratch every time" In this episode of The Hangar DX podcast, Ankit Jain, co-founder and CEO of Aviator, talks to Meri Williams, CTO at @pleo_io , about what the future looks like for engineering managers in the age of AI coding. Meri also shares why engineering organizations can't thrive without managers, what makes a good engineering manager, how to scale tech and teams when AI writes the code, and how to prevent accruing tech debt while doing it. 00:00 The Changing Landscape of Engineering Management 10:20 Navigating Technical Debt in Software Development 19:52 The Future of Engineering Management 35:58 Adapting to AI in Engineering Management About Meri Williams Meri is an experienced CTO and leader of technology organisations. They particularly enjoy helping others to level up as technical leaders and managers of organizations by working as a CTO coach and tech advisor / NED to various companies in this capacity through micro-consultancy ChromeRose.

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