David Singleton: preference

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…I was talking to an engineer and he's just like, I like the active writing code and it makes me sad that this is doing this for me. So he turns it off. This is doing this for me, so he turns it off. I think over time people will be like, "Eh, that's true. I never really enjoyed this part of it." Yeah, I'll speak from personal experience. I love writing code. I really love writing code. It's pretty much what I do for fun. I also love writing code with Copilot, because as I said, it means that I can focus on the parts that really matter. I think that's been a fairly consistent experience across Stripe as well. Awesome. You run a massive engineering team. I don't know if you shared the numbers of engineers, but I know there are many. What are, and this is a broad question, just what are some lessons you've learned about managing people and/or managing engineers, whichever direction you want to go?…

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