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Engineering leadership in 2026

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Talkat LDX3 London 2026 · 2026-06-02..06-03· [engineering-leadership]

speaker

name:Scott Carey
github:scottcarey

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video:https://youtu.be/MPVmV-6O5to
slides:none on file

summary

Lead Dev publishes a third engineering leadership report based on a survey of 600 respondents and finds middle layers getting squeezed: cuts hit middle management 43% → 56% → 65% over three years. Sixty-three percent report expanded scope, 29% more direct reports, 36% of managers doing more hands‑on work, and one in three considering a return to ICs (up 15 percentage points). Org flattening pairs ICs with AI agents like Cursor and Claude and even job ads (DocuSign) demand leading through code 75% of the time.

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chapters (6)

  1. 0:00Engineering leadership trends
  2. 1:31Flattening org charts
  3. 4:17Middle management cuts data
  4. 7:04Manager workload expansion
  5. 8:29Player-manager roles rise
  6. 10:13Career shifts and paths

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