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Earn your team's trust as a new engineering manager through listening, follow-through, individual support, and openness to feedback without forcing disclosure.

Welcome to another issue of Dev Leader Weekly! In this issue, I discuss fixing the feedback loop when AI-written code fails review or agents get stuck.
Explore MongoDB ownership, C# collections, and Claude Code workflows for .NET. Plus practical mentoring, manager communication, and AI code review discussions.
Learn MongoClient in ASP.NET Core with explicit configuration, singleton reuse, borrowed collection handles, and version-aware cluster ownership at shutdown.
Help a mentee choose a development focus by exploring interests, everyday friction, and useful opportunities without forcing a goal or a larger career plan.
Share information without overwhelming engineers: make context accessible, explain changes, and distinguish useful transparency from repeated interruption.