Dispatches from Flux
Practical playbooks, data-driven insights, and real-world stories to help you lead AI-accelerated engineering organizations with clarity and confidence.
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Ch-ch-ch-ch-changes: The Evolving Role of the Engineering Leader
AI is speeding up software development, but engineering leaders must remain vigilant against rising tech debt, quality issues, and architectural drift.
AI Disrupts Itself, Expect More of This
On Civitas Outlook, Rachel explores a popular pattern in technology: an incumbent building bigger and more expensive tech, only to be disrupted by someone more clever.
(DnD) Discover New Dynamics: An Offsite Icebreaker Engineers Will Actually Enjoy
Flux’s DnD-inspired icebreaker made offsite conversations fun and engaging, sparking meaningful conversations, inside jokes, and a deeper understanding of team dynamics.
AI Code Review Tools: Why Code Co-Pilots Need Supervision Like Interns
Discover why AI code review tools are essential when using code co-pilots. Learn best practices for supervising AI-generated code like managing interns.
Start 2025 With A Bang, With Flux
Flux empowers engineering leaders to kick off 2025 with confidence by providing instant, AI-driven insights into codebases, prioritizing critical issues, and streamlining planning for new projects.
The Right and Wrong Way to Regulate AI
AI’s regulatory frameworks seem desirable on the surface but become idealistic, contradictory, and impractical upon further examination – check this blog post out in Civitas Outlook.
Supercharging Cross-Functional Collaboration: Three Practical Tips
Flux’s winning product culture leverages collaborative roadmaps, priority balancing, and centralized communication to keep its distributed team aligned.
The Double-Edged Sword: Coding Assistants Have Engineering Leaders Concerned
AI coding assistants offer exciting potential but bring risks to code quality, learning, ethics, and more, requiring careful integration and oversight.
AI Generated Code Quality: Why Your Kickass Intern Still Needs Oversight
Discover why AI generated code quality requires human oversight, and learn how engineering leaders can manage AI coding tools effectively with proper validation.
A (GitHub) Universe of Possibilities
GitHub Universe spotlighted the rise of specialized AI agents, rapid prototyping tools, and a strong developer focus—perfectly complementing Flux’s mission to empower engineering leaders and their teams.
LLM Outputs: All About the Inputs
By combining data sources and methods like LLMs, a two-dimensional taxonomy enables engineering managers to ask holistic, high-level questions about their codebase and receive organized, contextual insights.
Building a Winning Product Development Culture
Flux’s product culture combines user-centered design, iterative development, pragmatic processes, and a strong writing culture to build an agile, organized, and ever-curious team.