What Steve Yegge thinks about management

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Software engineer of four decades who spent years at Amazon and Google, wrote the Stevey's Blog Rants essays, and co-authored the book Vibe Coding with Gene Kim.

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1 dated position, 2026, in their own words. Our reading of what Steve Yegge has said — not written or endorsed by them.

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1. 11 Mar 2026

   Our readingToken burn is the single most important proxy metric a company can watch today, because it measures whether people are trying at all.

   Their wordsWhat probably the single most important proxy metric that you can have it in a company today is token burn. Because what token burn says is your engineers are trying to do stuff or your non-engineers.

   ↗From IDEs to AI Agents with Steve Yeggeyoutube.com 8th of 25 in this recording