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title: Engineering Culture
description: Interviews, articles, podcasts, and talks where Jesse Robbins discusses Engineering Culture.
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# Engineering Culture

Interviews, articles, podcasts, and talks where Jesse Robbins discusses Engineering Culture.

## [Call a savepoint](https://jesserobbins.com/mentions/call-a-savepoint-ai-coding-compulsive-engagement-linkedin.md)

*2026-05-07*

Working with AI engages the same dopamine machinery as slot machines. The hollow feeling at the end of a 2.3B-token week is the loop doing what loops like this do. The fix is a savepoint.

## [DevOps is dead? Nope, it is maturing ft. Jesse Robbins](https://jesserobbins.com/mentions/devops-is-dead-nope-it-is-maturing-confident-commit-podcast.md)

*2023-04-07*

DevOps is not dead. It's maturing. Platform engineering is the next layer of the same idea, not a replacement for it. My conversation with Rob Zuber on what's actually changing and what isn't.

## [An oral history of #hugops: How tech's first responders built a culture of empathy](https://jesserobbins.com/mentions/oral-history-hugops-protocol.md)

*2021-02-25*

Protocol's oral history of

## [Building Companies that Devs & DevOps Teams Love, And Avoiding Expensive Mistakes](https://jesserobbins.com/mentions/building-companies-devops-teams-love-jesse-robbins.md)

*2013-06-25*

Heavybit talk on the expensive mistakes developer-tools founders make, drawn from the ones I made building Chef from open source into an enterprise infrastructure company.

## [Tim O'Reilly on Why We Started the Velocity Conference](https://jesserobbins.com/mentions/tim-oreilly-on-why-we-started-velocity-conference.md)

*2013-06-17*

Tim O'Reilly's 2013 retrospective on how the Velocity Conference began. I co-founded it with Steve Souders and chaired the program.

## [Changing Culture & Being a Force for Awesome](https://jesserobbins.com/mentions/velocity-2012-changing-culture-force-awesome-oreilly.md)

*2012-06-28*

My 2012 Velocity talk on changing engineering culture from the inside. Start small, build champions, use metrics to create confidence, exploit compelling events.

## [GameDay: Creating Resiliency Through Destruction](https://jesserobbins.com/mentions/gameday-creating-resiliency-through-destruction-usenix.md)

*2011-12-20*

My USENIX LISA'11 talk on GameDay: deliberately inject failures into production to build organizational resilience before real outages happen. I had been running these exercises at Amazon since 2003.

## [DevOps Culture Hacks: Infecting your Boss & your Business with Awesome](https://jesserobbins.com/mentions/devops-culture-hacks-devopsdays-boston.md)

*2011-03-08*

DevOpsDays Boston 2011. I gave the culture hacks talk for the first time, no slides, no video, just the framework I had figured out the hard way at Amazon.

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