Discover how engineering leaders in gaming navigate the constant tension between keeping the lights on and building what's next. Meir Wasserman shares hard-earned lessons from EA Sports, Amazon Games, and 2K Games on driving change, creating urgency, and evolving as a leader, plus his take on how AI is reshaping the engineering workflow.
Main Topics Covered:
Balancing operational toil with delivering customer value and new features
Driving organizational change: why the hardest part is people, not technology
A practical heuristic for deciding which operational problems are worth fixing
Scaling leadership: staying connected to your org as it grows beyond one team
A skip-level meeting format for staying connected without micromanaging
Why leaders must be the source of urgency for their top priorities
Simplifying complexity as a core leadership skill to rally teams around problems
Evolving views on AI: from skepticism to excitement about agentic workflows
The shift from writing code to engineering outcomes, and what that means for the profession
Bridging the gap between vibe coding and production-grade, enterprise-level code
AI economics and the coming shift from flat pricing to consumption or value-based models
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