A question, from a friend of the blog:
If you were at a table with 10 engineering leaders with plenty of time to go deep, what roundtable questions would you ask them to draw out their best insights?
- LLMs are changing the process of writing code. How are these changes impacting the job of managing engineers?
- To what extent are LLMs going to transform your business entirely?
- Will the build v. buy dynamic be fundamentally altered?
- Are the scopes of projects changing because of LLMs?
- Can you use LLM tools to summarize the performance of individual contributors? Would this approach ignore important non-coding tasks performed by ICs?
- How have your hiring interviews changed as a result of LLMs? Do you encourage the use of LLMs in interviews? Have the "work-sample" interviews changed? Are "puzzle" interviews obsolete?
- Are you under pressure to decrease head-count as a result of LLMs?
- Do LLMs allow your organization to have higher standards regarding code style, test coverage, etc.?