The Skills We Keep
A reflection on how AI changes the practice that builds technical judgment, and why the skills worth keeping need to be protected deliberately.
Thoughts and experiences with technology in practice, focused on where tools, systems, and human judgment intersect.
A reflection on how AI changes the practice that builds technical judgment, and why the skills worth keeping need to be protected deliberately.
A packed Microsoft Reactor panel reinforced that AI in software engineering is evolving faster than our practices can fully settle, making practitioner-level conversations about judgment, discipline, and real-world adoption more important than any single product announcement.
In this podcast discussion, we explore how enterprise software must evolve to treat AI agents as first-class users, requiring structured interfaces, intentional design, and built-in governance alongside human workflows.
Enterprise software is entering a new era where it must support not just human users, but agents that can participate directly in work.
For technology leaders: why AI coding agents demand a new engineering control model and how specification-driven development enables scale.