StaffPlus New York past videos - LeadDev

StaffPlus New York past videos

StaffPlus New York past videos

All the videos from our New York events

The rise of the forward-deployed engineer (FDE)

The hottest job in tech… for now.
- Kari McMahon
Your LLM inference benchmark is lying to you

Benchmarks lie. Test your traffic.
- Ankush Rastogi
Measuring engineering productivity is harder than ever

Your dashboard is lying to you.
- Robert Kimani
The engineering leadership skill no title can give you

How to lead with influence.
- Meg Adams
The reality of being a CTO

The CTO role, honestly explained.
- James Stanier
It’s time to rethink how we measure engineering productivity

Stop measuring code. Start measuring confidence.
- Sriramprabhu Rajendran
Microservice dogma nearly tanked our seed round

The platform survived. The engineering org did not.
- King-Immanuel Edoh
How to hire engineers for strong judgment and taste

Hire for judgment, not knowledge.
- Sage Lazzaro
Engineering managers are paying the price of rising expectations

The role that never stops expanding.
- Diego Quiroga
AI-coding agents spread through peer pressure, not mandates

Your engineers are watching each other.
- Chris Stokel-Walker
The 2026 engineer paradox: more capable, but more alone

AI is making engineers more isolated.
- James Stanier
Developers on the frontline of the SaaS replacement wave

Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) is under threat.
- Kari McMahon
If anyone can vibe code a product, who needs developers?

Building is no longer a moat.
- Chris Stokel-Walker
Code maintainability plummets in the AI coding era

AI code is rotting codebases.
- Bill Doerrfeld
AI productivity is burning out your best engineers

The “invisible validator” problem.
- Sreenivasa Reddy
Why your AI bill is bigger than it should be

Token hygiene is the next engineering discipline.
- Charles Humble
AI-generated code sparks production confidence crisis

35% of teams won’t ship their own AI-generated code.
- Chantal Kapani
AI coding is addictive. Engineers are paying the price

AI coding’s burnout problem.
- Chantal Kapani
How to prepare for your engineering manager interview

The engineering manager interview decoded.
- Vaidehi Joshi
AI-coding agents are now the default. What comes next?

Even more AI?
- Bill Doerrfeld
Killing a project is every engineering leader’s hardest call

Sometimes you must kill a project before it kills momentum.
- Alessandro Bahgat
Engineering managers ditch cloud AI for local LLMs

Are local LLMs a third way forward?
- Chris Stokel-Walker
You can vibe code a demo, but what about a product?

Lessons from shipping generative AI products to production.
- Ivy Si
How to stay technical as a software engineering manager

Four ways to maintain technical proficiency.
- Emma Bostian