Engineering Leaders Can Be the Most Powerful People Today

How the Landscape Is Changing with AI

First-level engineering leaders — Team Leads, Tech Leads, Engineering Managers — are having a rough time.

2024 was harsh. Organizations are flattening. The era of free money is over, and leaders got hit (I covered that here). Amazon openly admits they’re increasing the ratio of individual contributors to managers. And “transactional managers” — those who…