Archive - Engineering Leadership

How to Avoid AI Code Slop

AI can generate code faster than ever, but it can also scale technical debt faster than ever! Learn the practical strategies to optimize the…

19 hrs ago • Gregor Ojstersek and Ankit Jain

How to Manage Your Time as a First-Time Lead

Practical strategies to protect your time, avoid burnout, and lead your team effectively.

May 14 • Gregor Ojstersek

How to Use AI to Onboard Into a Codebase Faster

4 onboarding steps to speed up your understanding of a codebase and get you up and running in a few hours!

May 10 • Gregor Ojstersek and Jeff Morhous

Removing AI in Tech Interviews is Wrong

AI-assisted engineering is already the standard, and technical interviews should reflect how modern software is actually built.

May 7 • Gregor Ojstersek

How to Thrive as an EM in the AI Era

Case study from The Multiplier Mindset: How to Move from Senior Engineer to Tech Leader in the AI Era

May 3 • Gregor Ojstersek and Anton Zaides

April 2026

Should You Become a Forward Deployed Engineer?

What do FDEs at Salesforce, OpenAI, and Palantir really do, and should you become one?

Apr 30 • Gregor Ojstersek

3 Key AI Trends and How Salesforce Engineers use AI

Recap from the Salesforce TDX 2026: AI Agents, 3 key AI trends and how engineers use AI.

Apr 27 • Gregor Ojstersek

The Differences Between US and EU Tech Companies

One optimizes for speed and innovation, and the other optimizes for stability and sustainability. Which is the way to go?

Apr 23 • Gregor Ojstersek

How an AI-Native Startup From SF Works and Builds Its Product

An insider's look into the workflows, tools, and culture powering a modern AI-first engineering team.

Apr 20 • Gregor Ojstersek

Become a Great Generalist or Extreme Specialist

Should you become a great generalist or an extreme specialist? One thing is clear: staying in the middle will result in fewer opportunities.

Apr 16 • Gregor Ojstersek

Code Review is the New Bottleneck For Engineering Teams

Building is now limited to how fast we are able to review the newly generated code. This is what to do in order to make it less of a bottleneck.

Apr 13 • Gregor Ojstersek

Meta Created an Internal Leaderboard on AI Token Usage

This seems to be a part of the broader trend in Silicon Valley called "tokenmaxxing". Here's what's happening.

Apr 9 • Gregor Ojstersek

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