VanRuby: The Engineer's New Leverage

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# The Engineer's New Leverage: Practising Managerial Skills with AI Agents Register on Luma: https://luma.com/us0chxar The past year of AI adoption has been about individual productivity: better prompts, faster loops, more code shipped. Yet more and more observations point at team productivity staying flat, or worsening over lost trust, slop code, and cognitive debt. This talk is about what engineers can do with that gap, without waiting for a manager to call the shots. Drawing on recent research and writing, Anton shows how briefing, delegation with accountability, and proactive communication let every engineer participate in turning individual speed into team impact. ## Speakers Anton Drukh mentors CTOs, VPs of Engineering, and technical co-founders at venture-backed startups. He was VP of Engineering at Snyk, joining as the first hire and scaling the team to 150 people as the company reached an $8.5B valuation. Over the past five years he has coached more than 100 engineering l