# ai-native engineering (blogs) — RSS Amplifier Recent posts from the 3 feeds in the RSS Amplifier directory that cover ai-native engineering. Page: Feed: --- ## [How Shutterstock Builds AI-Native Engineering Teams](https://newsletter.eng-leadership.com/p/how-shutterstock-builds-ai-native) _2026-08-20 · Gregor Ojstersek · Engineering Leadership_ Insights from my conversation with Jefferson Frazer, Director, AI Metadata and Delivery, Shutterstock. ## [How to Tell if Your Manager is Actually Good?](https://newsletter.eng-leadership.com/p/how-to-tell-if-your-manager-is-actually) _2026-08-17 · Gregor Ojstersek · Engineering Leadership_ The 3 signs that reveal whether your manager is helping you thrive or holding you back. ## [Inside OpenAI’s Forward Deployed Engineer Role](https://newsletter.eng-leadership.com/p/inside-openais-forward-deployed-engineer) _2026-08-15 · Gregor Ojstersek · Engineering Leadership_ Insights based on my conversation with the Global Head of Forward Deployed Engineering at OpenAI. What does it take to be a great forward deployed engineer at OpenAI? ## [How I Cut Observability Costs by 60% in 2 Days](https://newsletter.eng-leadership.com/p/how-i-cut-observability-costs-by) _2026-08-10 · Gregor Ojstersek · Engineering Leadership_ If you don t watch your infrastructure costs, you may end up with a huge bill at the end of the month. This is how an experienced engineer approached reducing observability costs. ## [How to Have Great 1:1 Meetings](https://newsletter.eng-leadership.com/p/how-to-have-great-11-meetings-0d5) _2026-08-08 · Gregor Ojstersek · Engineering Leadership_ Notion template for great 1:1 meetings included! ## [This is getting ridiculous: I shipped 490 pull requests in June](https://positivelyfred.substack.com/p/this-is-getting-ridiculous-i-shipped) _2026-08-06 · Fred · Fred Writes Words_ A follow-up to the AI-Native Engineering Playbook, four months later, with real throughput numbers for every stage and a few questions I can't answer yet. ## [How to Become an Engineering Multiplier Using AI](https://newsletter.eng-leadership.com/p/how-to-become-an-engineering-multiplier) _2026-08-03 · Gregor Ojstersek · Engineering Leadership_ How high-performing engineers and engineering leaders use AI to create more impact. ## [How OpenAI Optimized AI Agents For Scale](https://newsletter.eng-leadership.com/p/how-openai-optimized-ai-agents-for) _2026-07-29 · Gregor Ojstersek · Engineering Leadership_ Inside the Harness, API, and Inference efficiency optimizations that support the fast growth of Codex and ChatGPT Work. ## [How to Do Spec-Driven Development](https://newsletter.eng-leadership.com/p/how-to-do-spec-driven-development) _2026-07-27 · Gregor Ojstersek · Engineering Leadership_ The workflow AI-native teams use to build complex software. This is how they do it! ## [Clear Writing Is Becoming a Superpower in the AI Era](https://newsletter.eng-leadership.com/p/clear-writing-is-becoming-a-superpower) _2026-07-24 · Gregor Ojstersek · Engineering Leadership_ There is a flood of AI-generated text. That makes clear writing, credibility, and thoughtful communication matter more than ever. ## [Marketplace for AI-Powered Professionals (Sponsored)](https://crawlproof.com/a/KwUv9VeILjuS) _2026-07-24 · **Sponsored**_ Find professionals who use ChatGPT, Copilot, and Claude to deliver work faster. ## [How Companies Build AI-Native Engineering Teams](https://newsletter.eng-leadership.com/p/how-companies-build-ai-native-engineering) _2026-07-20 · Gregor Ojstersek · Engineering Leadership_ Differences between OpenAI, Anthropic, Shutterstock, and other AI-native engineering teams. ## [Lessons From Coaching 300+ Engineers and Engineering Leaders](https://newsletter.eng-leadership.com/p/lessons-from-coaching-300-engineers) _2026-07-17 · Gregor Ojstersek · Engineering Leadership_ What coaching hundreds of engineers and engineering leaders taught me about why people get stuck, and how they move forward. ## [Announcing my Book "The Multiplier Mindset" Published by O'Reilly](https://newsletter.eng-leadership.com/p/announcing-my-book-the-multiplier) _2026-07-14 · Gregor Ojstersek · Engineering Leadership_ Proud to announce my book The Multiplier Mindset published by O Reilly! ## [How Technical Should an Engineering Manager Be?](https://newsletter.eng-leadership.com/p/how-technical-should-an-engineering-258) _2026-07-13 · Gregor Ojstersek · Engineering Leadership_ Is being a highly technical engineering manager the best way to go these days? I am answering this question in this article. ## [How OpenAI Builds Infrastructure Teams](https://newsletter.eng-leadership.com/p/how-openai-builds-infrastructure) _2026-07-10 · Gregor Ojstersek · Engineering Leadership_ Insights from my conversation with Venkat Venkataramani, VP of Applied Infrastructure, OpenAI, and Emma Tang, who is leading Data Infrastructure at OpenAI. ## [A Lot of Software Engineering Is Becoming Engineering Leadership](https://newsletter.eng-leadership.com/p/a-lot-of-software-engineering-is) _2026-07-06 · Gregor Ojstersek · Engineering Leadership_ The important shift in software engineering work from 2 years ago to today. ## [How Anthropic Builds AI-Native Engineering Teams](https://newsletter.eng-leadership.com/p/how-anthropic-builds-ai-native-engineering) _2026-07-01 · Gregor Ojstersek · Engineering Leadership_ Insights from my conversation with Katelyn Lesse, Head of Platform Engineering, Anthropic. ## [5 Learnings Building Canva for AI Agents](https://newsletter.eng-leadership.com/p/5-learnings-building-canva-for-ai) _2026-06-29 · Gregor Ojstersek · Engineering Leadership_ Full recording and insights from the talk from Anwar Haneef, GM & Head of Ecosystem, Canva, at the Engineering Leadership LIVE event in San Francisco. ## [Building Trust and Credibility is the New Moat for Engineering Leaders](https://newsletter.eng-leadership.com/p/building-trust-and-credibility-is) _2026-06-25 · Gregor Ojstersek · Engineering Leadership_ It's more important than ever to be considered trustworthy, especially to the leadership team and stakeholders. This is how to do it! ## [AI Transformation Journey: 3 Myths and Learnings](https://newsletter.eng-leadership.com/p/ai-transformation-journey-3-myths) _2026-06-22 · Gregor Ojstersek · Engineering Leadership_ Full recording and insights from the talk from Vinay Perneti, VP of Engineering, Augment Code, at the Engineering Leadership LIVE event in San Francisco. ## [Open directory of blogs for agents (Sponsored)](https://crawlproof.com/a/mFsWTGfsVRsr) _2026-06-22 · **Sponsored**_ Submit URLs or OPML; receive feed pages with summaries, plus JSON/OPML/plain text ## [How to Do Performance Reviews](https://newsletter.eng-leadership.com/p/how-to-do-performance-reviews) _2026-06-18 · Gregor Ojstersek · Engineering Leadership_ Full guide on how to set up successful performance reviews based on my personal experience and what has worked best for me and my teams. ## [What the Top 1% of Engineering Teams Do Differently with AI](https://newsletter.eng-leadership.com/p/what-the-top-1-of-engineering-teams) _2026-06-15 · Gregor Ojstersek · Engineering Leadership_ Full recording and insights from the talk at the Engineering Leadership LIVE event in San Francisco. ## [Should You Go From Engineering Manager Back to Being an IC?](https://newsletter.eng-leadership.com/p/should-you-go-from-engineering-manager) _2026-06-10 · Gregor Ojstersek · Engineering Leadership_ Engineering managers are more desired than ever to become ICs. Should you make the jump? ## [Context-Driven Development](https://engleadai.substack.com/p/context-driven-development) _2026-04-18 · Alexander Rashkov · AI-native Engineering Leader_ AI-Native Engineers Treat Context as the First-Class Prim ## [The EM Operating System — build an AI-Native Second Brain](https://engleadai.substack.com/p/em-operating-system-ai-native) _2026-04-10 · Alexander Rashkov · AI-native Engineering Leader_ A step-by-step guide for engineering managers drowning in 1:1s, decisions, and context. ## [Building AI-Native Engineering Teams](https://engleadai.substack.com/p/building-ai-native-engineering-teams) _2026-04-06 · Alexander Rashkov · AI-native Engineering Leader_ The SDLC is dead. Long live ADLC. ## [The AI-Native Engineering Playbook: Crawl, Walk, Run, Fly](https://positivelyfred.substack.com/p/the-ai-native-engineering-playbook) _2026-03-04 · Fred · Fred Writes Words_ A framework for engineering teams ready to go all the way with AI ## [Why AI Ethics Matter Even If AI Isn’t Conscious](https://positivelyfred.substack.com/p/why-ai-ethics-matter-even-if-ai-isnt) _2025-12-19 · Fred · Fred Writes Words_ Much of the public debate about AI ethics is stuck on the same questions: ## [AI-Native Product Creation](https://positivelyfred.substack.com/p/ai-native-product-creation) _2025-10-23 · Fred · Fred Writes Words_ How do we build products efficiently when the hard part is no longer the manual work? Here is my approach to empowering and coordinating AI-leveraged product teams. ## [The bottleneck is no longer developer capacity. AI has broken that](https://positivelyfred.substack.com/p/the-bottleneck-is-no-longer-developer) _2025-09-25 · Fred · Fred Writes Words_ For decades, software engineering processes were designed around the scarcity of developer time. ## [Retro Grid Dungeon Crawler (Sponsored)](https://crawlproof.com/a/ffyO7OfjmowT) _2025-09-25 · **Sponsored**_ Retro grid movement with first-person combat, loot and skill-tree progression. ## [AI Reconstruction of "When Must We Kill Them?"](https://positivelyfred.substack.com/p/ai-reconstruction-of-when-must-we) _2025-04-23 · Fred · Fred Writes Words_ Given only the title, subtitle and top comments of Nicholas Decker's essay "When Must We Kill Them?" by Nicholas Decker — April 17, 2025, this is what AI (o3) believes what was written.