In this episode of Leaders of Code, Dan Lines, cofounder and COO of LinearB; Ben Matthews, Senior Director of Engineering at Stack Overflow; and host Ben Popper talk about why velocity should be a diagnostic tool, not the primary goal of engineering teams. They also touch on the need for cross-disciplinary collaboration to align engineering with business objectives. 

They also discuss:

• AI's potential to automate repetitive tasks, allowing engineers to focus on more complex work.
• The challenges of scaling organizations and the importance of centralized developer experience teams to improve productivity.
• How non-technical staff can contribute to engineering tasks through the democratization of technology, enabling more innovation.

Episode notes:

• Connect with Dan Lines on LinkedIn.
• If you're looking to improve productivity for your engineering organization, check out LinearB.

Orkes is a developer-first enterprise workflow orchestration platform. Explore the developer edition or dive into the docs.

Before cofounding Orkes, Jeu was an architect at Uber and Netflix. Find him on LinkedIn.

Shoutout to Stack Overflow user Alex Stiff, whose answer to Bash - Sort a list of strings earned them a Lifeboat badge.

SambaNova makes a full-stack AI platform and an “intelligent chip” capable of running models of up to five trillion parameters, allowing developers to run state-of-the-art open source models without the time-consuming work of tuning and modeling. See what developers are building with the tech.

Find Rodrigo on LinkedIn.

This episode was recorded at HumanX in March. Next year’s event will be April 6-9, 2026 in San Francisco. Register today! 

The Geminus platform is built to automatically integrate data, physics, and computation for autonomous control of complex systems. Explore the platform or get in touch.

Find Greg on LinkedIn.

Paul Dhaliwal is the founder and CEO of CodeConductor.

Priya Joseph is the AI field CEO at DDN.

Lizzie Siegle is a developer advocate at Cloudflare.

Erin Mikail Staples is a developer experience engineer at Galileo. 

This episode was recorded at HumanX last month. Next year’s event will be April 6-9, 2026 in San Francisco. Register today! 

They also discuss:

• Lloyds Banking Group's multi-year journey to drive simplification and standardization, reduce cognitive load & improve engineering efficiency, and enhance developer happiness.
• Challenges engineering teams face today, along with the cultural shifts in regulatory environments.

Episode notes:

• Connect with Hilary Lanham and Tom Kelk. Visit Lloyds Banking Group to discover available job opportunities.
• Learn more about creating a private instance of Stack Overflow for your team or org with Stack Overflow for Teams.

Dataiku orchestrates data stacks and lets you create analytics, models, and agents.

Find Florian on LinkedIn. 

This episode was recorded at HumanX last month. Next year’s conference will be April 6-9, 2026 in San Francisco. Register today!

Bit lets you generate composable software simplicity, speed and quality. 

Connect with Laly on LinkedIn. 

Congrats to Lifeboat badge winner and blog contributor Charlie Martin for their answer to How does this proof, that the halting problem is undecidable, work?

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Kyle notes that his only experience with WebAssembly is Blazor. If you’re wondering about Blazor, we covered it on the blog in 2020. 

While Michael may have been the first user to get 10,000 rep, he’s not stopping there. 

His current employer, neuRealities, is still in stealth mode, shhhh.

Find Michael on his blog and possibly elsewhere.  

Lunar Analytics specializes in AI-powered claim optimization and healthcare solutions. 

Connect with Richard on LinkedIn. 

Knowtex allows healthcare providers to automate clinical workflows with generative AI. 

Connect with Caroline on LinkedIn.

Delve Deep Learning provides artificial intelligence solutions for public affairs. 

Connect with Jeff on LinkedIn.

This episode was recorded at HumanX last month. Next year’s conference will be April 6-9, 2026 in San Francisco. Register today!