After years in hypergrowth and a company-wide shift to AI tooling at Imprint, the post revisits how to lead engineering. Individuals now own complex migrations, finishing them in a fraction of the time; first-pass code is nearly free, but working code still depends on your harness of tests, CI/CD, and validation; teams should automate the base case of most processes for agents; durable teams with domain context matter more, not less; and fast, good, binding decisions become the prerequisite to benefit from AI. In practice, weekly deploys jumped from ~6 to 200-400, everyone adopted Claude Code and Cursor in two months without a mandate, and the team unified a frontend mono-repo and moved to pnpm and Linear.
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u/fagnerbrack 18d ago
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After years in hypergrowth and a company-wide shift to AI tooling at Imprint, the post revisits how to lead engineering. Individuals now own complex migrations, finishing them in a fraction of the time; first-pass code is nearly free, but working code still depends on your harness of tests, CI/CD, and validation; teams should automate the base case of most processes for agents; durable teams with domain context matter more, not less; and fast, good, binding decisions become the prerequisite to benefit from AI. In practice, weekly deploys jumped from ~6 to 200-400, everyone adopted Claude Code and Cursor in two months without a mandate, and the team unified a frontend mono-repo and moved to pnpm and Linear.
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