Latest update (and hopefully last update): Microsoft has published a few posts to clarify the debate. Please consider the following:
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Your existing team is buried in the complexity of your existing product. AI rewards the team with a blank slate. Most companies don't have one.
The stories about offshore "not working" are rarely about skill. They are about an invisible communication gap, and it starts the moment someone says yes.
Almost nobody trains you to be an engineering manager. You were good at writing code, so you got handed more people and more meetings, and one day the job was leading a team instead of shipping fea…
At VinSolutions, I was famous for one thing that had nothing to do with writing code. Every single time we shipped a release, I posted about it. On social media, to customers, inside the company, a…