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Issue #763
The Briefing For Engineering Leaders
Tuesday 27th October issue is presented by Unblocked
Your agents know the code. Give them the rest of your organizational context.
Unblocked reasons across your code, conversations, issues, docs, and production systems so agents can complete work correctly with less human intervention.
— Louise Deason
tl;dr: “I have spent the last several years collecting these phrases the way other people collect house plants. I steal them. I write them down. I try them out in my own meetings, badly at first, and then with increasing precision until they start to work. Below are seven I now use constantly, with the underlying move each one is actually doing - because the phrase is the surface; the move is the thing.”
Leadership Communication Staff+
— Michael Heap
tl;dr: “By pairing strong commitment with deep empathy, you respect both the decision-making process and the people executing it. Own the direction, do the work as if you were solely responsible for its success, and keep your eyes open for the genuine friction that proves it’s time to talk again.”
Management DifficultConversations
— Brandon Waselnuk
tl;dr: You write the rules files, maintain the skills, and paste in the Slack thread your agent missed. But hand-curated context goes stale, and when the sources disagree, your agent can’t tell which is right. Join us live on Oct 28 (FREE) to see how a context engine helps agents get it right the first time.
Promoted by Unblocked
Events AI Agents
— Mike Fisher
tl;dr: “The arrival trap costs the most in abandoned compounding. Somewhere right now, a 33-year-old with a decade of hard-won judgment is deciding the window has closed, while the data says they are still twelve years younger than the average founder of a top-performing company. Somewhere a team is killing a sound strategy in year two because someone sold it as a year-one story. The trap pushes a few people to fake success. It pushes far more to quit real success in progress because it’s arriving on an unfashionable schedule.”
Leadership Strategy Career
"Teach for the future; you have to live in it"
— Qing Wang, Morgan Westlee Lunt, Addy Osmani
tl;dr: “How do you review code at the volume agents produce it? On the Claude Code team, once we had high coverage and deep reviews, we started optimizing for the minimum amount of human review time that doesn't raise reverts or incidents.”
CodeReview AI Agents
— Luka Biber
tl;dr: Ask an AI agent to add versioning to file uploads, and it might rewrite parts of your upload system that didn't need changing. Catching that is now the engineer's job. Here are the five things we look for in senior engineers in the age of AI.
Promoted by Remgu
Management AI Hiring
— Karri Saarinen
tl;dr: “I think good products carry something of the people who make them. Their experience, what they care about, and how they think things should work. You might not know who those people are, but you can feel their perspective in the product.”
Leadership Culture Product
— Sharif Shameem
tl;dr: “I’ve heard some say that AGI will make us more efficient at work. And that it really won’t have much of an impact on our personal lives. I find this belief to be common in people who lack creativity and cannot envision a future beyond automating knowledge work. If the future we’re barreling towards is not one of unbridled eudaimonia, then what are we really doing here?”
Leadership Influence AI
— Fatih Arslan
tl;dr: “There are probably hundreds of posts like this. But I wanted to share my workflow about how I create and manage a fleet of agents. I've had huge success with it over the past few months.”
Guide AI Agents
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Notable Links
Claude SEO: Free OS SEO audits inside Claude.
DeepTeam: LLM red teaming framework.
DeepTutor: OS learning companion that grows with you.
ECC: Harness performance optimization system.
Elephant-Goldfish Model: OS plugin for spec-driven development with agents.
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