Management

At Meta, a diff is a pull request and DAT focuses on the inner development loop – the writing, building, testing, and debugging of code. The tech giant emphasizes diffs should be kept small and reviewable, which, in part, accounts for its average DAT of 50 minutes across 87% of available diffs.

I feel like it’s the continuous application of scientific management (Taylorism) here that fall short. Gallup has found time and again that effective workers have a lot more to do with environment than DATs..

That objective I described - meaningful Experimentation - is the first phase of our journey. We’ll then transition to a second phase centered around a goal of Adoption of AI as standard part of the day-to-day toolkit for engineers. At that point the focus shifts again to measuring Impact - where is this new tool helping, and where is it causing issues.

Deep dive in driving adoption of really anything. Change management 101.

I’m talking about personal goals. Not the corporate version where everyone wants to “develop leadership skills” but real, ambitious, life-changing goals that make people light up when they talk about them.

Rejecting the “up or out” rat race is phenomenal

_{Quote Citation: Stephane Moreau, “The insane privilege of being a manager”, SEP 09, 2025, https://www.blog4ems.com/p/the-insane-privilege-of-being-a-manager}

For over a decade, my dopamine (from work) came from a very predictable place: shipping new things. As a manager, those direct rewards will simply disappear, leaving you feeling unfulfilled for weeks (months in my case).

This hit home. And yes you too one day will be on a red team/warroom call remembering your glory days of diving deep figuring out the problem and feeling the accolades. Being a manager is a lot more pointing the spotlight than basking in it, rightfully so. As a manager suddenly results and rettenion matter most. Well Matheus puts it as ‘Shipping’ and ‘Happy’ which are results and retention oriented!