Decision Making is Your New Core Skill, So it's Critical to Avoid These Two Traps of Collaborative Decision-Making

About this episode

This episode discusses the importance of decision-making in software engineering and highlights two common traps in collaborative decision-making.

As coding becomes cheaper and faster through agentic tools, the bottleneck in software development is shifting upstream — away from writing code and toward the decisions that determine what gets built and why. In today's episode, I explore why decision-making is rapidly becoming the central activity of your job as a software engineer, and I walk through two common traps that even senior engineers fall into when they start participating more in collaborative, organizational decisions.

Topics covered

• decision making
• software development
• collaboration
• engineering
• organizational behavior

Keywords

• collaborative decision-making
• software engineer
• agentic tools
• bottleneck
• organizational decisions

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