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!

This is a testament to transparency – making sure everyone can access our features means we get more feedback and can make more product improvements. It's also testament to our team for listening and actioning the improvement ideas – I love our #10xTeam!

Ha, I'm similar – still building the habit to jump in here more often!!

Thank *you* for all your great insights!! Excited to jam more on all this stuff. 😊

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.

I really appreciated the discussion about the right reasons for bringing on code debt – and the cleanup you might have to do after!

“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

A woman speaking at a conference. The slide is titled “agile manifesto-ish”

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

Annie spoke about the 5 dualities of engineering with AI: friction fades, it opens up higher-level thinking, self-confidence grows, productivity accelerates, and creativity becomes more accessible. I won’t give away the details though — check out Annie’s talk in Sydney or Melbourne later this week!

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?

Special shout-outs to @vivekkatial.bsky.social for making sure we built this in an academically rigorous but speedy way, to Kevin for all the ML engineering to bring it to life, and to Ginny for the clarity of communication around this. Love our #10xTeam!

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. 🙏

Exploring Retrospective Meeting Practices and the Use of Data in Agile Teams Retrospectives are vital for software development teams to continuously enhance their processes and teamwork. Despite the increasing availability of objective data generated throughout the project and...

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!

These new docs 100% nail our value of deliver delight. 💅

Great question! Excited for this

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!

Thanks, Nathen!! We appreciate you beating the drums about why continuous improvement is the way to go – this is one of many examples of why!!!

So many people speak about the importance of continuous improvement, but it's much harder to do in practice – so this is super impressive! Well done to Nancy and Tony for pulling this off!

So cool seeing the stickers in the wild!

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

This blog post was such a great example of being both clear and kind – we need to be able to talk about hard things, but we can do it with empathy.

Love that the "Help Me Understand" exercise explicitly asks about how a challenge affected people emotionally – that's a great way to better understand the impact of something

@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