What Got You Here Won’t Keep You Here: A Letter to VPs of Engineering

VPs of Engineering: your playbook is obsolete. Here’s how AI changes everything about how you lead, measure, and develop your organization.

I wrote recently about how mid and late-career developers and engineering directors need to rebuild around AI. This is the version for VPs. Because transforming 200-person engineering organizations is an order of magnitude harder than transforming teams, and the competition for CTO roles in 2028 will be brutal.