Building your support network, picking the right projects, and why eng leaders make good investors w/ Amit Gupta #272
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Building your support network, picking the right projects, and why eng leaders make good investors w/ Amit Gupta #272

B2Upper-intermediateOctober 13, 202643 min
  • Interview
  • Business & money

Amit Gupta, Partner @ SNR Ventures, joins Jerry to discuss his unique eng leadership journey and how that led him to his second career as an investor / coach. We cover some of the lessons learned throughout his time working as VP of various startups and how those experiences shaped his desire to start his own consulting business. Amit defines what a coaching tree is and his philosophy when it comes to mentorship, picking the right projects, and determining what a team needs to work effectively together. Throughout the conversation, we revisit why effective engineering coaching also includes mentorship around company...

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The CAFE's framework is a definition framework for what constitutes high-quality context. The first dimension, C, is for clarity. Clarity asks whether the agent can interpret the request the way that it was intended. A request can reasonably be read more than one way.

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So that is something that can feel obvious to the person, right? It can feel obvious to us because we wrote it. And we bring everything that we know into reading it. Say you ask an agent to clean up the old feature flags.

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The agent is going to read old, let's say, as something that has not been touched in six months across the entire repository. So it will go and remove the flags in other Teams services too. One of them might be a kill switch, which is supposed to sit there and be untouched

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