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Latest
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New study suggests major productivity boost when using Cursor’s coding agent
Is this the massive productivity benefit we’ve been waiting for?
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“Trial by fire” is destroying your incident responseÂ
The worst time to learn about observability is during an outage.
Conference talks
LLMs: An operator’s view
Explore a pragmatic approach to using LLMs to boost team productivity, enhance products, and evolve your leadership strategy.
Rethinking interviewing in an AI era
Explore how to redesign technical interviews for an AI era by focusing on real-world thinking, communication, and human-centered evaluation.
Pay your (conflict) debts on time
Learn how unresolved conflict quietly erodes teams and how to tackle it early with clear and constructive leadership practices.
Mind the gap: Navigating the staff+ performance cliff
Explore why new Staff+ leaders often feel lost and how to rebuild confidence, clarity, and impact after the transition.
Taking a seat in the C-Suite: Transitioning from the highest-level operational roles to the executive team
A look at the transition to executive leadership, examining the skills, mindset, and priorities needed to succeed.
FORTRAN’s AI Playbook: Leadership lessons from history
Learn proven leadership strategies from FORTRAN’s history to successfully adopt AI, upskill teams, and drive lasting transformation at scale
Theory to action: Architecting and implementing your team operating system
Learn the theory behind the operating systems of high-performing engineering teams. Leave with a practical idea of how to design a flexible team operating system with rhythms, tools, and feedback loops for your team.
Reports
The Engineering Performance Report 2025
We asked 400 engineering leaders how they are measuring the performance of their systems and the impact AI is having on that performance.Â
The Engineering Team Performance Report 2025
We asked 500 engineering leaders how and why they measure their team’s performance. Here’s what we found.
The AI Impact Report 2025
Read the full report to learn how AI adoption is impacting developers, budgets, processes, and talent pipelines.
The Engineering Leadership Report 2025
We asked 600+ engineering leaders how their roles are changing in response to a rapidly changing economic landscape. Here’s what we found.
Upcoming panel discussions
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In partnership with HarnessHow guardrails enable you to work at AI speed
AI risks we will move faster and break things more. Learn about the guardrails that enable you to safely release in the Age of AI
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In partnership with HarnessHow McDonald’s and JPMorgan Chase safely scale experimentation
Learn how some of the largest multinationals safely run measurable experiments at the speed of AI — with guardrails not gates.
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In partnership with RedgateThe database risks you can’t afford to ignore
From compliance breaches to fragile legacy databases, ignore these blinking red lights at your peril
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In partnership with CloudflareEmbrace AI without losing control
How do engineering leaders move at AI speed without losing control and increasing delivery and security risks? You can do both.
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In partnership with HarnessTesting your system limits in the age of AI
Facing more code than ever, learn the resiliency best practices used by SREs, including where AI can help
The festival of engineering leadership
London • June 2 & 3, 2026
Must read
Do junior devs still have a path to senior roles in an AI age?
LeadDev’s AI Impact Report 2025 explores the challenges and opportunities for early-career engineers as AI transforms coding, mentorship, and skill development.
How to be a successful async advocate in an RTO world
Building an async-first culture is surprisingly straightforward in an RTO era.
Digital nomads find themselves at a crossroads
We checked in with four software developers who chose this path.
Digital nomads find themselves at a crossroads
We checked in with four software developers who chose this path.
How to boost your management impact with AI tools
Developers got their AI moment. It is time engineering managers had theirs too.
On our LeadDev playlist
Make it count; A no-nonsense guide to engineering metrics for the busy leader
Gain practical insights on engineering metrics that help busy leaders prioritize effectively, address delivery challenges, and measure team performance to maximize impact and productivity.
Behind the scenes scaling ChatGPT
Evan Morikawa gives you a behind the scenes look at how we scaled ChatGPT and the OpenAI APIs. A story about staying nimble enough to release new capabilities and to respond quickly to a rapidly changing industry.
Shopify’s remote working toolbox
This talk presents Shopify’s remote working toolbox, which is a collection of learnings, best practices and ideas for other leaders that are wishing to work and attract talent globally, but must fundamentally shift their culture to do so.
Career vectors for technical leaders
Mix and match skills to become the best technical leader that you can be.
The metrics you loved to hate in 2024
And other key findings from the 2024 LeadDev Engineering Team Performance report.
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