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StaffPlus New York past videos

StaffPlus New York past videos

All the videos from our New York events

Shai-Hulud shows engineering teams have a new AI security problem

Shai-Hulud exploited what already existed.
- Carly Page
When you should delegate to AI (and when you shouldn’t)

Delegate less. Own more.
- Jack Franklin
Your AI-coding agents might need an org chart

The wrong AI reviewer breaks more than it fixes.
- Chris Stokel-Walker
AI governance is now an engineering problem

Control is the real AI gap.
- Himanshu Saxena
Your junior engineers don’t need an office. They need you

Junior engineers need design, not luck.
- Kelli Korducki
In partnership with DX

AI productivity gains are closer to 10% than 10x

The benchmark is wrong, not the results.
- Justin Reock
How to avoid knowledge decay in software engineering

Is AI the answer? IBM thinks so.
- Bill Doerrfeld
AI-coding agents kill team collaboration

Agents code alone. Teams don’t.
- Chris Stokel-Walker
Engineering managers have a new job description

Did you get the memo?
- Ferit Topcu
The reality of being a senior engineer

Senior engineers orchestrate systems, not just code.
- Nihal Kaul
The rise of the forward-deployed engineer (FDE)

The hottest job in tech… for now.
- Kari McMahon
Your LLM inference benchmark is lying to you

Benchmarks lie. Test your traffic.
- Ankush Rastogi
Measuring engineering productivity is harder than ever

Your dashboard is lying to you.
- Robert Kimani
The engineering leadership skill no title can give you

How to lead with influence.
- Meg Adams
The reality of being a CTO

The CTO role, honestly explained.
- James Stanier
It’s time to rethink how we measure engineering productivity

Stop measuring code. Start measuring confidence.
- Sriramprabhu Rajendran
Microservice dogma nearly tanked our seed round

The platform survived. The engineering org did not.
- King-Immanuel Edoh
How to hire engineers for strong judgment and taste

Hire for judgment, not knowledge.
- Sage Lazzaro
Engineering managers are paying the price of rising expectations

The role that never stops expanding.
- Diego Quiroga
AI-coding agents spread through peer pressure, not mandates

Your engineers are watching each other.
- Chris Stokel-Walker
The 2026 engineer paradox: more capable, but more alone

AI is making engineers more isolated.
- James Stanier
Developers on the frontline of the SaaS replacement wave

Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) is under threat.
- Kari McMahon
If anyone can vibe code a product, who needs developers?

Building is no longer a moat.
- Chris Stokel-Walker
Code maintainability plummets in the AI coding era

AI code is rotting codebases.
- Bill Doerrfeld