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Issue #657
Essential Reading For Engineering Leaders
Friday 10th October issue is presented by WorkOS
The Enterprise Ready Conference is a one-day event in SF for product and engineering leaders shaping the future of Enterprise AI.
Hosted by WorkOS, the event features a curated lineup of speakers with hands-on experience building for the enterprise, including leaders from Postman, Webflow, Rippling, Render, Socket, Opal, and RunReveal.
You’ll hear how they’re driving Enterprise AI adoption in real-world environments — what’s working, what’s not, how they’re scaling securely, and where automation is making the biggest impact.
If you're a founder, exec, PM, or engineer responsible for the Enterprise AI roadmap, this conference is for you.
— Suresh Choudhary
tl;dr: I’ve noticed four archetypes of senior engineers who need more intentional management. If 45% of all engineers are seniors, chances are you’re managing one (or more) of them already: (1) The Over-Engineer. (2) The Builder-First. (3) The Ambiguity-Freezer. (4) The Soloist.
Leadership Management
— Marc Brooker
tl;dr: “That doesn’t mean you need to be 100% up-beat all the time, or be a pushover, or never complain. Those things are normal human behavior. But strongly avoid communities that make complaining the core of their identity. My personal limit is about 20%. I’ll stop engaging with communities when 20% of the content is negative.”
CareerAdvice
— Maria Paktiti
tl;dr: Everything you need to know to secure your MCP server using OAuth 2.1 and PKCE, server and auth metadata, client registration, JWT validation, and role-based access control.
Promoted by WorkOS
Guide AI
— Eliran Turgeman
tl;dr: “A friend asked me for some study / productivity tips, and I figured the most productive thing I can do is write a post about it. That way, it might help more people too. So here we go.”
CareerAdvice Productivity
“You don’t win a race by trying not to lose.”
— Gergely Orosz
tl;dr: “Observations by 30+ hiring managers and tech recruiters about what’s happening: a flood of inbound applications means more selective hiring, there’s increased demand for product engineers, and more.”
Mangement Jobs
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AI Tools
— Simon Højberg
tl;dr: “It’s disturbing how agreeable we are to the AI hype narrative and actively participate in the planned erasure of our craft9, and so willingly offer up our means of thinking. We were the lucky ones who got to earn a living from our hobbies. Even if we produce punctilious and rigid processes to counter slop—as some support with a striking similarity to the waterfall model of yore—we’ve still outsourced the fun part of the job and replaced it with directorial drudgery.”
AI ThoughtPiece
tl;dr: “Running and managing paid marketing campaigns at a global scale is not an easy job — as humans and marketers, it’s incredibly difficult to catch all the possible edge cases. And so we asked ourselves, How can we combine a scalable approach — using tools like automated creative generation, machine learning, and ad interaction data — with Spotify’s unmatched content library?”
Scale
tl;dr: A research browser that watches, captures, and optionally alters the browser signals anti-bot / fingerprinting scripts use and surfaces them in a UI for reverse-engineering.
WebBrowser
Null Pointer
Monitored Autonomy
Most Popular From Last Issue
5 Things Managers Do That Leaders Never Would - Simon Sinek
Notable Links
Glide: Keyboard-focused web browser.
Infisical: OS platform for secrets management.
OpenZL: Novel data compression framework.
UT: CLI utility toolkit.
WinBoat: Run Windows apps on Linux.
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