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StaffPlus New York past videos

StaffPlus New York past videos

All the videos from our New York events

AI made me more productive. Why am I busier than ever?

AI moves the bottleneck.
- Maxime Najim
Why engineers lose trust in AI-coding tools

First impressions can kill AI adoption.
- Chantal Kapani
PR reviews were already broken. AI made it worse

The PR review crisis is a Swiss cheese problem.
- Thomas Johnson
Claude Code creator says developers will become builders. Do they agree?

Is the engineer becoming extinct?
- Chris Stokel-Walker
Inside Bloomberg’s flat engineering culture

Flat structure. Full ownership. No titles.
- Chantal Kapani
When to kill a software project

Not every project reaches the finish line – and that’s OK.
- Bill Doerrfeld
The reality of being a principal engineer

Lead people, not just code.
- Silvia Botros
Translate tech debt into business risk

Good news! Tech debt is manageable.
- James Socol
Is Microsoft’s EngThrive framework immune to Goodhart’s Law?

Making your metrics more gameable.
- Chris Stokel-Walker
AI-generated abandonware is hollowing out open source

When everyone can build, the scarce resource becomes maintainers.
- Charles Humble
AI coding made us faster. Why did incidents increase?

Faster code. Slower, harder incidents.
- Parthiban Rajasekaran
An engineer’s guide to Model Context Protocol (MCP)

Bridging the gap between APIs and AI agents.
- Ivy Si
Demand for engineering managers is surging in the agentic coding era

Just not necessarily to be managers…
- Sage Lazzaro
How LLMs became Walmart’s on-call engineer

LLMs aren’t just productivity tools.
- Lokesh Lagudu
Observability tools weren’t built for AI debugging

AI debugging has a data problem.
- Thomas Johnson
The reality of being an engineering manager

Managing teams, not just tickets.
- Vaidehi Joshi
What’s gone wrong at GitHub?

Reliability issues are driving users away in their droves.
- Charles Humble
Frontier AI models haemorrhage sensitive data

Your AI agent is leaking secrets.
- Chris Stokel-Walker
Coinbase flattens management and trims workforce in AI-driven restructure

The pure manager’s days are numbered.
- Chantal Kapani
Think the technical interview is dead? Think again

The technical interview is evolving as AI-assisted coding becomes the norm.
- Kari McMahon
DORA metrics are lying to you and AI is making it worse

DORA metrics were fine. Then AI showed up.
- Paul LaPosta
The reality of being a senior engineering manager

From managing execution to shaping systems.
- Mallika Rao
What 16 years of software engineering taught me about growth

Growth beyond the code.
- Arighna Maity
How Cloudflare rebuilt Next.js in a weekend

Yep, you guessed it – with agentic AI.
- Bill Doerrfeld