Engineering Futures
Justin Cranshaw, Gaurav Gargate, William ChengA weekly newsletter exploring the future of software engineering leadership in the AI era. Join 10,000+ engineering leaders rethinking how we build, measure progress, as the industry evolves rapidly. By the makers of Maestro AI.
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Principles Over Process with Gaurav Gargate
Most engineering leaders spend enormous energy on process. Which agile framework. Which sprint cadence. Which AI coding tool to adopt. How to standardize workflows across teams. The assumption is that the right process produces the right ou...
The Measurement Problem in Software Engineering
For fifty years, the software industry has tried to measure developer productivity. Every attempt has failed—not because we haven’t found the right metric, but because we kept trying to count things without understanding them.
In 1982, Tom...
Why AI Productivity Gains Are Context-Dependent | With Raju Matta
Some engineering teams are seeing real, measurable AI productivity gains. Cursor is transforming how frontend developers build React apps. AI-assisted code review is catching bugs before deployment. Prototypes that took weeks now take days....
Building AI Products Under HIPAA | With Muhammad Atif
When you’ve bootstrapped an engineering org from 2 people to 500, working with Fortune 500 clients like Intel and Samsung, you learn something most AI builders miss: the best technology doesn’t always ship.
Muhammad Atif, President and CTO...
Stop starving your GPUs—with Jaikumar Ganesh
When you provision thousands of GPU clusters weekly for Apple, Spotify, OpenAI, Uber, Runway, and Cursor, you see something nobody else does. From the infrastructure layer, the patterns are unmistakable. Different companies, different produ...
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Trying to say thoughtful about the future of work in the age of AI hype. \ud83c\udf1f Building https://getmaestro.ai \ud83c\udf1f Computer scientist and HCI researcher \ud83c\udf1f Past lives: EIR at Allen AI, Researcher at Microsoft Research, PhD at CMU.
Gaurav is VP of Engineering at Confluent, building and scaling distributed systems and products for enterprise customers. Previously at Microsoft and Box, he also founded a startup that shaped his leadership perspective.
Engineering and product leader building https://getmaestro.ai. In the past: EIR at Allen Institute for AI, Director of Product at Headliner, Engineering at Mobilisafe and Rapid7, Engineer at Microsoft
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