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How can you possibly realistically manage a 100+ engineer team? 100+ direct reports?

Also, the Python landscape is just as bad as frontend! And I enjoy writing both quite a bit. Pip, pipenv, pyenv, poetry, conda, virtualenv, uv, ruff, black, pep8, etc, etc. They both need massive improvements.



> How can you possibly realistically manage a 100+ engineer team? 100+ direct reports?

They report to engineering managers who report to me.

> Also, the Python landscape is just as bad as frontend! And I enjoy writing both quite a bit. Pip, pipenv, pyenv, poetry, conda, virtualenv, uv, ruff, black, pep8, etc, etc. They both need massive improvements.

Yeah, it is bad, but a notch better. Most things in Python land are 5-year-olds. 5-year-old React or Vue codebases (the two most popular frameworks) are not backward-compatible with the current release.

And we cannot stay on old versions as we have a government as a customer who requires SBOM, and SBOM declaring unmaintained dependencies creates even more trouble than upgrading frontends regularly!




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