Michael Novati’s journey from Meta intern to E7 principal engineer in six years required the company to invent an entirely new career archetype: the “coding machine.”
This extended conversation explores the tension between individual excellence and organizational scale, why the coding machine archetype hits a ceiling, and how AI is simultaneously amplifying and threatening this approach.
Guest Links:
https://www.linkedin.com/in/michaelnovati/
https://formation.dev/
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