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Engineering executive for 10+ years and author of books on engineering leadership; previously CTO at Carta and Calm and an engineering leader at Stripe and Uber.
Why their word counts: Runs engineering at Imprint and says its managers are rethinking how software teams work with agents.
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I tell my teams that I work with now that hiring is the least interesting way to solve every problem. We should almost never talk about hiring.
Will LarsonCTO, Imprint · Executive, 
Imprint
Press report: The revised rules of engineering management with Will Larson, The Pragmatic Engineer (newsletter), October 21, 2026, at Takeaway 6.
One of the worst parts of being an engineering manager in the 2010s was when you joined the ranks of engineering management, one of the first lessons you'd get was: 'you need to never make a technical decision again.' That's literally what I was told.
Will LarsonCTO, Imprint · Executive, Imprint
Press report: The revised rules of engineering management with Will Larson, The Pragmatic Engineer (newsletter), October 21, 2026, at Takeaway 10.