Hello from San Jose! I’m here to speak at DataWeek (going on stage in an hour!).

Come find me if you’re around today or tomorrow — I’m wearing a shirt with a “happy code ship” (and giving out stickers).

Human reviewers are more important than ever with LLMs writing and reviewing code. But alongside that, the role of humans is shifting – and that’s why it’s so important to understand the patterns in code reviews. Are they different when we’re using more LLMs? See our latest feature for more!

I don't look happy here 🤣 but I had a great time co-presenting with @vivekkatial.bsky.social at @yowconf.bsky.social about how we built our first LLM feature – to measure the quality of feedback on code reviews.

“As an engineering leader, we should be expected to sharpen our sword as much as our devs.” Adel Smee shared great insights for supporting your Eng leaders to learn and grow — including the Society of Cool Kids, a fortnightly meetup where their leaders go to share challenges & learnings
#YOWTLS25

“Like any good cult leader, I needed a manifesto” 😂😂
Adel Smee has us all laughing. #yowtls

And we’re off with a bang! @yowconf.bsky.social Tech Leaders Brisbane kicks off with an amazing keynote from @codefrenzy.bsky.social — what are software engineers if they’re not writing code? And what do leaders need to do to guide teams through this change?

It is live!!! After years in the making, we now give you insights into feedback quality in @multitudes.co – showing specific feedback, rubber-stamping, and heated comments.

As with everything we do, these insights are a question, not the answer, and this is backed by deep research (more below).

Great framework from Alex Zaccaria of LinkTree about giving your team clarity when sharing ideas:
—thought: my idea, but you can make a different decision
—recommendation: I would like to do it this way; it’s your decision but tell me what you decide
—mandate: this is how we’ll do it
#sunrise25

Loved your talk, @sachajudd.com! Especially this —> “The metaphor of surfing implies movement; the metaphor of platforms implies that we’re stationery.” Great call to action to make the internet more joyful again by creating something just for yourself.

The best customers are ones that make your product better. Huge thanks to the @honeycomb.io team for co-designing new PagerDuty insights with us! Special shout-outs to @ferd.ca and @another-engineer.bsky.social in particular. 🙏

Proud to share our original research, now available on arXiv! Co-authors, @uvic.ca PhD candidate Alessandra M Paz Milani, @margaretstorey.bsky.social, @vivekkatial.bsky.social, and @lpeate.bsky.social explore how engineering teams take action on data in retros. Read more👇

arxiv.org/abs/2502.03570

Vindhya's talk answered so many of my questions as a product leader. I love her one-team approach and practical tips for making sure tech debt is addressed – while still delivering customer-facing features. More below!

After we launched our Focus Time insights for Google Calendar, we had a swatch of Outlook users telling us they wanted the same insights – so we've now delivered!

Especially knowing how biased our LLMs are, this is especially important – join us for a chat about how AI systems misrepresent gender, and ways to overcome that -->

How is AI interpreting and representing gender? 💭

Join @jrosenbaum.com.au, Melbourne-based AI artist, researcher and lecturer, for a #TechLeaderChat on Wed 29 Jan/30 Jan to explore why gender is fundamentally misunderstood by machine learning systems.

RSVP now: bit.ly/AIperception...

#AI #Tech

@allenholub.bsky.social “10X programmers actually slow down software delivery” — eventually leading to a steady state where all knowledge is concentrated in one person and they become a key person risk and bottleneck #yow24