Craig McLuckie on Culture as a Teams Operating System in the AI Era @infoq
Craig McLuckie on Culture as a Teams Operating System in the AI Era  @infoq
Uploaded June 2026 | Updated September 2026, 2 weeks ago
This is the Engineering Culture Podcast, from the people behind InfoQ.com and the QCon conferences. In this podcast, Shane Hastie, Lead Editor for Culture & Methods, spoke to Craig McLuckie, co-creator of Kubernetes and CEO of Stacklok, about the impact of AI coding tools on open source communities and engineering teams, designing deliberate organisational culture, and navigating evolving career paths for engineers in the age of AI.

Read a transcript of this interview: bit.ly/3RGzPCa

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