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Today's guest is James Stanier, CTO at Nordhealth, former director at Shopify, an author of several books about engineering management, remote work, and more.
With James, we talked about what senior engineers will look like in the future, taking from a great article he wrote just recently, and then regarding how engineering management is changing, what's expected of managers today, and what you need to thrive.
We also talked about AI adoption in his team, in our personal lives, and discussed the state of remote work in 2026.
🥇 Interview Summary
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It’s the 5-minute takeaways of what we talked about, with timestamps to the relevant video moments, for those who don’t have time to sit through the 1-hour chat.
Here is the agenda for today:
🔮 The senior engineer of 2035
🧑💼 How engineering management is changing
🤖 AI adoption: from chaos to creativity
🏠 The state of remote work in 2026
⠀Let’s dive in 👇






