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Stay Sassy EM

Co-creator and Writer, Stay SaaSy. On 1 show, 1 appearance. The Shows tab opens the full record on each.

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Stay SaaSy EM is one half of the pseudonymous duo behind Stay SaaSy, a tech blog and podcast covering engineering and product management. Both co-creators intentionally conceal their real identities and employers while sharing tactical advice on software culture and leadership.

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Everything Stay Sassy EM said on any show that made the record, most notable first. Each card names its show and opens the statement there.

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Stay Sassy EM: Shift to API consumption pricing will redefine workplace management
“I think 20, 26 is going to be insane. It's already a little insane on that fund because we're seeing a lot of the big players move from kind of subsidy based request based pricing to straight up API pricing, consumption based pricing and I haven't seen a ton o…”
Stay Sassy EM Apr 13, 2026 ▶ 7:35 ⚡️ The best engineers don't write the most code. They delete the most code. — Stay Sassy
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Stay Sassy EM: Companies can now build faster than they can distribute
“I think there are already businesses and we're seeing this in industry where they can build faster than they can distribute. They can build faster than they can get customers.”
Stay Sassy EM Apr 13, 2026 ▶ 12:37 ⚡️ The best engineers don't write the most code. They delete the most code. — Stay Sassy
Stay Sassy EM: 70% of executive work is standard and automatable
“I would start to think of the top of the tree and a lot of leaders and a lot of executives are bottlenecks for their entire organization. A lot of what they're doing, 70% of what they're doing should be things that Are pre-standard in industry.”
Stay Sassy EM Apr 13, 2026 ▶ 32:37 ⚡️ The best engineers don't write the most code. They delete the most code. — Stay Sassy
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Stay Sassy EM: A company will try an AI manager within two years
“And I really think that in the next two years, we will see the first company that tries an AI manager. They won't try an AI executive because I think that's like a whole different can of worms, but I think we'll see an AI manager and I think it'll be weird. An…”
Stay Sassy EM Apr 13, 2026 ▶ 40:04 ⚡️ The best engineers don't write the most code. They delete the most code. — Stay Sassy
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Stay Sassy EM: Code review will bifurcate into full automation or rigorous discipline
“I think it's either going to go like PR is a totally automated review, and literally there's no human in the loop, and that the tools are good enough, or the entire industry is going to get to, we need to have poor review be like a serious thing that we're not…”
Stay Sassy EM Apr 13, 2026 ▶ 49:31 ⚡️ The best engineers don't write the most code. They delete the most code. — Stay Sassy
Stay Sassy EM: Build internal software only if spreadsheet replaces it
“I think a very good for what it's worth, heuristic for some software is if you can replace it with a Google sheet or a spreadsheet. You probably can build it internally. And there's a lot of software that actually looks like a Google sheet or a spreadsheet wit…”
Stay Sassy EM Apr 13, 2026 ▶ 20:05 ⚡️ The best engineers don't write the most code. They delete the most code. — Stay Sassy
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Stay Sassy EM: Dashboards must become agent-compatible this year
“The ability to do, like, any simple find-and-grab information from a dashboard, like, I think that just has to be agent-compatible, like, this year for companies, because that is one of those things where if you spend 10 minutes searching for a key that you ca…”
Stay Sassy EM Apr 13, 2026 ▶ 25:59 ⚡️ The best engineers don't write the most code. They delete the most code. — Stay Sassy
Stay Sassy EM: AI startups face identical organizational problems as earlier generations
“I talked to people and they're like, Hey, I'm at like a series B hot AI startup and they have the exact same problems we had, you know, when we were at series, when I was at a series B and they had the exact same problems at series C. And so it's like it is It…”
Stay Sassy EM Apr 13, 2026 ▶ 38:47 ⚡️ The best engineers don't write the most code. They delete the most code. — Stay Sassy
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Stay Sassy Hit Hacker News Front Page 5 to 10 Times Annually Early On
“And we had in his very early days, maybe like Five to 10 posts a year that we get like front page. And that was a huge sort of boost to our kind of early growth of the blog.”
Stay Sassy EM Apr 13, 2026 ▶ 1:52 ⚡️ The best engineers don't write the most code. They delete the most code. — Stay Sassy

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