Pull requests are up, and your senior engineers spend their days reviewing code nobody really wrote. Quality is slipping in ways that don't show up yet.
Coaching for engineering leaders through AI change
Lead the change instead of absorbing it.
One-on-one coaching for engineering leaders at companies in the middle of an AI-driven re-plan. From someone who has spent decades in your seat.
No pitch, no obligation. Reschedule or cancel free up to 24 hours ahead.
Arsenio Santos
Engineering leader and coach
20+ yearsleading technical teams
Hands-on, not theoreticalrecent experience managing engineering teams
Startups to Fortune 100from founding teams to global orgs
Sound familiar?
What this actually looks like
Your junior engineers ship faster than ever, but you can't tell what they actually understand, or how they'll ever become seniors.
What "senior" means is shifting under your feet, and you're about to write performance reviews against a ladder that no longer fits.
Someone has started tracking AI usage per engineer. Your team noticed, and now they're optimizing for the dashboard instead of the work.
This is the third AI rollout this year. Your engineers have quietly stopped taking any of them seriously.
Your backfill was denied because AI should make up the difference. It doesn't yet, and the gap is landing on your best people.
None of that is a tooling problem. It's a leadership problem, and the work is deciding what you're going to prioritize, how you'll measure progress when the old measures have gone stale, and who you develop now that the ladder is evolving. That's what I can help with.
How it works
Start small. Keep going only if it's working.
- 1
Free intro call
25 minutes on video. You tell me what's hard right now; I tell you honestly whether I can help.
- 2
A plan for your situation
We agree on the two or three things that matter most, and how we'll know they're getting better.
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Coaching sessions
50-minute sessions, single or in a bundle. Not the right fit after the first? Full bundle refund.
About Arsenio
What I bring to it
Over twenty years of leading engineering teams through reorgs, re-plans and new tooling. What I coach is the part most leaders were never taught: how to have the conversation you're avoiding, how to tell whether your team is faster or just busier, and how to keep your best people while everything changes around them.
I'm a big believer in servant leadership, psychological safety, and blameless retrospectives. If those sound like buzzwords, I get it. Ask me on the intro call what they actually look like on a team that's behind schedule and nervous about what AI means for them.
Not sure if this is where you are?
That's what the free intro is for. 25 minutes, and you'll leave with at least one useful idea whether or not we work together.