Engineering Leaders Roundtable: Balancing Speed and Quality in the Era of AI Dev Tools (INVITE ONLY)
Hosted by Brad Pielech, Leopard Engineering Leader Community Member + Co-Founder of a Stealth AI startup. Brad has 20+ years of experience in engineering at startups and large public companies. Brad was formerly the CTO at Onaroll and a Director at Toast.
As AI-assisted development tools rapidly transform how software is built, engineering leaders face new questions around QA, team processes, and risk. Join us for a low key, candid chat with other engineering leaders in the Leopard slack.This intimate roundtable brings together VPs of Engineering and other senior engineering leaders to discuss the evolving landscape of AI-assisted development in production environments. We'll explore topics like:
Practical approaches to maintaining code quality standards with AI-generated code
Lessons learned from integrating tools like GitHub Copilot, Cursor, and Claude
Evolving strategies for troubleshooting production issues
Evolving budget priorities for development tools
Tips for maintaining engineering excellence while leveraging AI acceleration
Come prepared to share your experiences and learn from fellow engineering leaders who are balancing innovation with reliability in this rapidly changing space. We're keeping this to a small group to ensure meaningful dialogue and connections.
Check this page as well as the c-leopard-leaders-general Slack channel for updates (Lexi likes to blab as she plans lol). If you need slack access, email gem@leopard.fyi and lexi@leopard.fyi.
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Leopard also runs a free, invite-only slack community for Engineering Leaders who believe in inclusivity in software engineering (50/50 gender split). Our 500+ members include Director+ leaders at Lyft, Retool, Clickup, Ro, Twilio, HashiCorp, Microsoft Copilot, Code for America, and hundreds of smaller startups. If you'd like access, email Angella@leopard.fyi!
Hiring + want to share your open engineering roles to the Leopard community? Email lexi@leopard.FYI or grab time with Leopard's CEO Lexi: https://calendly.com/lexilewtan/30min