August had us asking how the rise of AI-powered coding assistants could fundamentally change the role of the engineering manager, while also grappling with age-old challenges around managing challenging people and having productive 1:1 meetings. In no particular order, here are five articles you should read on LeadDev.
1. Harry Guinness, How AI changes engineering management
It’s a question all of us are being forced to grapple with, whether we like it or not: just how much is the rise of generative AI going to change the craft of software engineering? Harry Guinness went out and spoke to a bunch of engineers to see how they were feeling about this shift.