Jul 27, 2026 8 min read

🫐 Software Factories, Meetings, Magical Thinking, Mapping Teams, FinOps, AI Security: TMW #492

Don't forget to nominate someone for the CTO Craft 100...

This week's TMW is sponsored by QA.Tech - end-to-end QA with AI testing tool for a modern dev workflow.

Hello, hello, hello, welcome to the week!

We're still taking nominations for the annual CTO Craft 100 awards - if there's a leader in your life who's helped you develop your skills, built your confidence, sponsored you, or if they're someone whose writing and talks have helped you see things in new ways, we want to know who they are and celebrate them! It's also completely fine to nominate yourself...

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

Most of what makes a codebase good never gets written down. Architectural calls or a sense of what "right" feels like all sit in the developers' heads.

That works fine until agents are writing most of the code and nobody can review thousands of changes a day.

Join Vilhelm von Ehrenheim, Co-founder and CAIO at QA tech, for an online Bytes session: What Good Looks Like: Quality Guardrails for Agentic Development.

Vilhelm makes the case for taking that unwritten knowledge and turning it into automated guardrails that run in your pipeline, covering architecture, behaviour, and function. He'll get into: