Podcast: Stellar Work
Episode: Engineering Management In The Age Of AI
Pub date: 2026-04-27

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Most engineering teams using AI are about 2x faster. Not 10x. The bottleneck moved, but nobody optimized the rest.Jeff Lee-Chan spent 10 years at Google working on YouTube, then seven years at Snapchat. He went from IC to staff engineer to engineering manager. Now he spends 20 to 30 extra hours a week experimenting with AI tools outside his day job.In this conversation, you'll hear:Why a 30-minute AI side project convinced him the world had changedWhat the actual AI stack looks like inside Big Tech right now (it's mostly Claude Code, Cursor, and Codex)Where the real bottleneck sits when coding speed isn't the problem anymoreWhy he thinks 4-5 custom code review bots beat a single default oneHow AI is shrinking the junior engineering pipeline and what that meansThe one mistake he made early in management that he'd warn every new manager aboutJeff Lee-Chan on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/jeffrey-lee-chan/Mentoring with Jeff: https://mentorcruise.com/mentor/jeffreylee-chan/More episodes & all platforms: https://stellarwork.start.pageNewsletter: https://substack.com/@stellarworkHost: Ben, founder of Stellar Work

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