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# 3 things top 1% teams do differently

**[Manager.dev](https://daily.dev/sources/zaidesanton)** · 10 min read · 14 upvotes · 6 comments

## Summary

A CTO at Weave shares three practices that distinguish top engineering teams in the AI era: continuously iterating on the hiring process (including paid work trials), learning to parallelize work across multiple AI coding agent sessions through better context management, and shifting code reviews from mandatory post-PR human reviews to AI-assisted review plus earlier plan-stage reviews. The post argues that AI tools now handle coding standards and bug detection well enough that only ~5% of PRs need human review, while direction-level feedback is better given during planning. Effective AI usage is framed as fundamentally a context management problem.

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**@yaireo** · 3 upvotes

> "code reviews are optional" - I find this extremely bad.
>
>
> ALL PRs must be reviewed by another CAPABALE human.
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> You will accumulate chaos without doing this

**@yaireo** · 2 upvotes

> this maybe "3 top things" at this guy's workplace but every workplace has its own list of 3 most important things.
>
> For example at my workplace we do NOT hire. We are good as-is. The most important thing I believe is to have TALENTED people.
>
>
> Talent + curiosity + ambition is all you need.

**@poojaprabhu** · 1 upvotes

> Good points. Especially the socond one. Parallelization is difficult but necessary to get work doen in today's environment.

**@rzaasadov** · 1 upvotes

> continuously hiring usually actually when product well established and now scaling horizontally. So this rules actually only for king of teams/companies

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