Discover how engineering leaders in gaming navigate the constant tension between keeping the lights on and building what's next. Meir Wasserman shares hard-earned lessons from EA Sports, Amazon Games, and 2K Games on driving change, creating urgency, and evolving as a leader, plus his take on how AI is reshaping the engineering workflow.
**Main Topics Covered:**
- Balancing operational toil with delivering customer value and new features
- Driving organizational change: why the hardest part is people, not technology
- A practical heuristic for deciding which operational problems are worth fixing
- Scaling leadership: staying connected to your org as it grows beyond one team
- A skip-level meeting format for staying connected without micromanaging
- Why leaders must be the source of urgency for their top priorities
- Simplifying complexity as a core leadership skill to rally teams around problems
- Evolving views on AI: from skepticism to excitement about agentic workflows
- The shift from writing code to engineering outcomes, and what that means for the profession
- Bridging the gap between vibe coding and production-grade, enterprise-level code
- AI economics and the coming shift from flat pricing to consumption or value-based models
**Connect with Meir Wasserman:** LinkedIn + Blog
**Connect with Stephen Koza:** LinkedIn
**Connect with EverOps**
**References:**
- Book:https://www.amazon.com/Amp-Unreasonably-Expectations-Intensely-Everything/dp/1119836115**Amp It Up** by Frank Slootman
- Tool:https://notebooklm.google.com/**NotebookLM** by Google
