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Issue #655
Essential Reading For Engineering Leaders
Friday 3rd October issue is presented by Encord
Encord is the universal data layer trusted by the world’s leading AV & ADAS teams, like Woven by Toyota and Zipline.
Join Encord’s LiDAR experts on Oct. 28 for a masterclass on how to:
Visualize and curate multimodal data, including LiDAR and radar
Automate 3D segmentation of obstacles with single-shot labeling and object tracking
Create robust, scalable pipelines for model training and evaluation
Achieve shorter iteration cycles & enterprise-grade model deployment at scale.
— Wes Kao
tl;dr: “Imposter syndrome is other people thinking you’re good, but you don’t believe it yourself. Reverse imposter syndrome is knowing you are good, but others don’t see it from the outside.”
CareerAdvice
— Matheus Lima
tl;dr: “I used to think the same way. For years as an engineer, I wore my hatred of politics like a badge of honor. I was above all that nonsense. I just wanted to ship. Politics was for those other people, the ones who didn’t have what it takes technically. Now I think the opposite: politics isn’t the problem; bad politics is. And pretending politics doesn’t exist? That’s how bad politics wins.“
CareerAdvice
tl;dr: Most AV teams can segment LiDAR and camera data, but struggle to iterate quickly, detect rare events, and scale workflows reliably. The teams that succeed combine curation, annotation, and model evaluation all in one place. This masterclass breaks down how leading companies like Woven by Toyota and Zipline accelerate iteration cycles, automate 3D segmentation, detect edge cases, and deploy production-ready models faster.
Promoted by Encord
Management Video Scale
— Gergely Orosz
tl;dr: “What would you do if you learned your company is up to something illegal like stealing customer funds, or you’re asked to make code changes that will enable something illegal to happen, like misleading investors, or defrauding customers? Here are three real-life cases, where what engineers and engineering managers did had serious consequences.”
Management Culture
"The most important single aspect of software development is to be clear about what you are trying to build"
— Marc Brooker
tl;dr: “As a system builder, I’m much more interested in what systems of LLMs and tools can do together. LLMs and code interpreters. LLMs and databases. LLMs and browsers. LLMs and SMT solvers. These systems can do things, today, that LLMs alone simply can’t, and will never be able to do. More importantly, they can do things today orders of magnitude more cheaply and quickly than LLMs can, even in the case where they can do the same things.”
LLM
tl;dr: Garner Health cut CI triage tickets with a lightweight Pipeline Analyzer built on Augment Code (CLI + Context Engine). Redis engineers use Augment to spelunk legacy repos, add features, and ship tests without weeks of context switching. Workday engineers turned a messy metadata catalog into actionable insights—by making the AI write and reread its own learnings. Watch the 28-min panel for the playbook and pitfalls.
Promoted by Augment Code
Video AI
tl;dr: “Today, we are excited to announce the 2025 DORA Report: State of AI-assisted Software Development. Drawing on insights from over 100 hours of qualitative data and survey responses from nearly 5,000 technology professionals from around the world.”
Management AI
tl;dr: “With over 2 million Apache Spark applications running daily, Uber operates one of the largest Spark deployments in the industry. Migrating Spark versions is no simple feat, given the scale and complexity of our operations. This blog delves into how Uber successfully navigated this migration, and the innovative automation and tooling we developed to make it possible.”
Architecture
— Brandon Smith
tl;dr: “They have a very real organizational cost, which as engineers we need to be aware of. Having more of them makes more little green things light up in the console and makes that coverage number go up, so it feels good to add them. But like anything, testing needs to be done with consideration.”
Tests
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