engineer

also referred to as: engineers

5 statements across 5 episodes · 2 bullish · 0 bearish · 5 people on the record · first statement Aug 17, 2023 by Kellan Elliott-McCrea · across every show →

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Aug 17, 2023
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Elliott-McCrea: Managing software engineers during tech booms resembles managing volunteers
“Particularly when the industry is on an upswing, there is something similar to managing volunteers and managing engineers, even though you're paying the engineers a lot of money to do it.”
Kellan Elliott-McCrea Aug 17, 2023 ▶ 1:09:52 How to supercharge your engineering org | Kellan Elliott-McCrea (Adobe, Dropbox)
Sep 14, 2023 bullish
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Siroker: AGI will eventually perform half the work of human engineering teams
“Eventually, you know, I don't think it will necessarily replace engineers, but it'll certainly augment them. You'll have plenty of, you know, half the work that an engineering team does will be done by AGI, and half will be done by humans, and the human stuff …”
Dan Siroker Sep 14, 2023 ▶ 50:37 AI Hot Takes and Unusual Twitter Fundraising Strategies with Dan Siroker (Rewind AI)
Jan 25, 2024 positive
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Engineering leaders must stay technical and code to maintain credibility
“You must stay technical as an engineer. They can tell. They know when you're no longer doing that, and your credibility, it's not gone, it's just different.”
Michael Lopp Jan 25, 2024 ▶ 1:00:11 The human side of world-class engineering leadership | Michael Lopp (Apple, Palantir, Slack)
Jun 5, 2025 neutral
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Saarinen: Engineers validate startup ideas faster than designers through working prototypes
“So there's a little more like clear, like quicker bath to some kind of validation, I would say, versus like designers, you might have this idea of something could be better. But so you design it, but you still just have designs. You don't actually have the pro…”
Karri Saarinen Jun 5, 2025 ▶ 1:26:11 Inside Linear: Why craft and focus still win in product building | Karri Saarinen (Co-founder & CEO)
Jun 25, 2026
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Copplestone: Supabase launches unproven products with zero dedicated engineers
“So we're launching a product at the moment, and there's just no engineers on it. It's just a product person engineering it. And people say, oh, should we staff this up? And I said, well, absolutely not. They don't have an idea baked yet. And so it needs to be …”
Paul Copplestone Jun 25, 2026 ▶ 18:06 The egoless culture that built Supabase | Paul Copplestone (Co-founder, CEO)
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