{"podcast":{"title":"Scrum Master Toolbox Podcast: Agile storytelling from the trenches","slug":"scrum-master-toolbox-podcast-agile-storytelling-from-the-trenches-445588","podcast_index_feed_id":445588,"rss_url":"https://scrummastertoolbox.libsyn.com/rss","website_url":"http://www.scrum-master-toolbox.org/","image_url":"https://static.libsyn.com/p/assets/e/2/5/e/e25edab2a57e22f8/Scrummaster_toolbox_podcast_logo_v1.png","author":"Vasco Duarte","episode_count":200,"summary":"Every week day, Certified Scrum Master, Agile Coach and business consultant Vasco Duarte interviews Scrum Masters and Agile Coaches from all over the world to get you actionable advice, new tips and tricks, improve your craft as a Scrum Master with daily doses of inspiring conversations with Scrum Masters from the all over the world. Stay tuned for BONUS episodes when we interview Agile gurus and other thought leaders in the business space to bring you the Agile Business perspective you need to succeed as a Scrum Master. Some of the topics we discuss include: Agile Business, Agile Strategy, Retrospectives, Team motivation, Sprint Planning, Daily Scrum, Sprint Review, Backlog Refinement, Scaling Scrum, Lean Startup, Test Driven Development (TDD), Behavior Driven Development (BDD), Paper Prototyping, QA in Scrum, the role of agile managers, servant leadership, agile coaching, and more!","last_synced_at":"2026-07-27T20:18:41.285145+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/scrum-master-toolbox-podcast-agile-storytelling-from-the-trenches-445588"},"episode":{"title":"BONUS Why a Distinguished Engineer Stopped Reading Code — Lights-Out Codebases and the End of the IC With Philip Su","slug":"bonus-why-a-distinguished-engineer-stopped-reading-code-lights-out-codebases-and-the-end-of-the-ic-with-philip-su","published_at":"2026-04-11T10:05:00+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/scrum-master-toolbox-podcast-agile-storytelling-from-the-trenches-445588/bonus-why-a-distinguished-engineer-stopped-reading-code-lights-out-codebases-and-the-end-of-the-ic-with-philip-su","show_page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/scrum-master-toolbox-podcast-agile-storytelling-from-the-trenches-445588","url":"https://scrummastertoolbox.libsyn.com/bonus-why-a-distinguished-engineer-stopped-reading-code-lights-out-codebases-and-the-end-of-the-ic-with-philip-su","audio_url":"https://traffic.libsyn.com/secure/scrummastertoolbox/20260411_Philip_Su_BONUS.mp3?dest-id=246429","summary":"BONUS: Why a Distinguished Engineer Stopped Reading Code — Lights-Out Codebases and the End of the IC Philip Su has spent two decades at the highest levels of software engineering — Microsoft, Meta (where he reached Distinguished Engineer, IC9), OpenAI, and now building his own product solo with AI. In this episode, he makes a provocative case: the individual contributor role as we know it is over, code reviews are becoming a liability, and the best engineers are already managing AI agents instead of writing code themselves. From Amazon Warehouse Floors to OpenAI \"Every day at work, I lifted six tons of packages with my arms. No one learned my name. And it was the structure — the ability to leave work behind when I clocked out — that pulled me out of a spiral.\" Philip's path through tech is anything but typical. After scaling Facebook's London engineering office from a dozen engineers to 500+, he stepped away from Big Tech entirely. During Peak 2021, he worked the floor at Amazon's flagship warehouse south of Seattle — 11-hour shifts, processing 15,000 packages a day. He documented the experience in his Peak Salvation podcast , exploring depression, the divide between the wealthy and the working class, and the maddening inefficiencies inside one of the world's largest employers. That experience reshaped how he thinks about work, systems, and what actually matters when you strip away titles and stock options. He later joined OpenAI as an individual contributor — going from leading hundreds of engineers to writing code again — before leaving to build Superphonic , an AI-powered podcast player. 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