The Engineering Manager Is the Most Informed Person in the AI Room (opens in new tab)

Engineering managers are almost entirely absent from the AI transformation discourse. There's a structural reason for that, and understanding it is the first step to doing something about it. Engineers write on the internet. C-suite decisions make headlines. Engineering managers absorb pressure from above, complexity from below, and produce outcomes that get credited in both directions. The system doesn't reward the EM voice publicly. But the EM position gives you something that's genuinely h...