Jun 29, 2026 7 min read

🧀 OKRs for AI, Managing Sideways, Manager Scorecards, Agentic Team Topologies, Flattening, Trusting AI, Networking: TMW #488

CTO Craft Con: Europe - join us in Amsterdam this September!

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This week's TMW is sponsored by Pensero - giving leaders objective visibility into delivery, quality, and AI impact across the organization.

Hello, hello, hello, welcome to the week!

If your calendar only has room for one in-person event this autumn, make it CTO Craft Con: Europe in Amsterdam, 29 - 30 September. Built specifically for CTOs, VPs of Engineering and Heads of Technology, this is where senior tech leaders come to think out loud with peers who genuinely get the role, not to sit through vendor pitches or passive keynotes.

Confirmed speakers include Randy Shoup (SVP Engineering, CircleCI), Raffi Krikorian (CTO, Mozilla) and Sarah Abrantes (VP Engineering, Adyen). Two days of your time is a real investment, and this event is designed to earn it:

Structured roundtables where you compare real decisions with peers at similar-stage companies
Themed Coffee Corner sessions on scaling teams, hiring headaches, leadership transitions and more
Candid, off-the-record conversations that no Slack thread or LinkedIn post can replicate
16+ hours of content across AI adoption, org design and platform strategy, with recordings after the event

Prices will rise as September gets closer, so lock in your advance rate ticket now at conference.ctocraft.com/europe-2026. See you in Amsterdam!

That's it, let's look at some links....

Andy @ CTO Craft

Ps. If you're in an engineering leadership role, you absolutely need to be on top of the latest data on compensation and long-term incentives - have a look at our recent Compensation Report for all the latest insights.

CTO Craft Con - Dates for Your Diary

AI-enabled engineering organizations need different KPIs

Lines of code used to measure output. Now they measure how much code you'll have to maintain. When developers generate code in minutes, activity stops meaning anything, and AI amplifies activity faster than any org can validate impact. Dave lays out the five KPIs that actually matter now, including the quality tax: high output with growing instability isn't efficiency, it's deferred cost.