AI assistants and large language models automate boilerplate implementation, shifting the software engineer's primary task from typing code to clearly specifying problems and verifying outcomes. Rather than eliminating engineering, modern tooling elevates it: developers must organize complexity, define modular boundaries, and enforce deterministic verification pipelines to avoid the trap of "spaghetti prompts."

Andrey Breslav is a distinguished language designer, educator, and entrepreneur who spent a decade leading the design of the Kotlin programming language at JetBrains. Having authored a significant portion of the Kotlin compiler and served as president of the Kotlin Foundation, he also sat on the Java Community Process expert group for Project Lambda. Today, he is the founder and CEO of CodeSpeak, a platform rethinking developer tooling to transform conversational intent into structured, verifiable functional requirements.

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Equal Experts is a product software development consultancy with a network of over 1,000 experienced technology consultants globally. They increase the pace of innovation by using modern software engineering practices that embrace Continuous Delivery, Security, and Operability from the outset ➡️ https://bit.ly/3ASy8n0

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Sam Newman is the author of "Building Microservices" and "Monolith to Microservices", two of the most influential books on distributed systems design. He is an independent consultant and former ThoughtWorks technologist, he has spent decades helping organizations worldwide decompose monoliths, adopt cloud and CI/CD practices, and reason clearly about service boundaries. He is one of the most recognized voices on microservices and software architecture in the industry.

So is AI really replacing software architects? Find out what Dave Farley and Sam Newman think about that in this episode of " The Engineering Room".

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Equal Experts is a product software development consultancy with a network of over 1,000 experienced technology consultants globally. They increase the pace of innovation by using modern software engineering practices that embrace Continuous Delivery, Security, and Operability from the outset ➡️ https://bit.ly/3ASy8n0

📖 "The Software Developers’ Guidebook Amazon ➡️ https://amzn.to/4f9ozFK ebook version ➡️ https://leanpub.com/softwaredevelopersguidebook

📖 The original, award-winning "Continuous Delivery" book by Dave Farley and Jez Humble ➡️ https://amzn.to/2WxRYmx

📖 "Continuous Delivery Pipelines" by Dave Farley Paperback ➡️ https://amzn.to/3gIULlA ebook version ➡️ https://leanpub.com/cd-pipeline

Hosted by Dave Farley - co-author of Continuous Delivery (Jolt Award winner), author of Modern Software Engineering, and inventor of the Deployment Pipeline.

David Yanacek is a Senior Principal Engineer at AWS and a lead advisor on the Agentic AI team, having played a foundational role in the development of DynamoDB and CloudWatch. He is currently a primary driver behind the Kiro IDE and Amazon’s operational agents, specializing in building and operating resilient, high-scale distributed systems.

David and Dave talk about the transition from simple AI code completion to autonomous agentic development and the fundamental engineering principles are more critical than ever in an era of AI-generated code.

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Equal Experts is a product software development consultancy with a network of over 1,000 experienced technology consultants globally. They increase the pace of innovation by using modern software engineering practices that embrace Continuous Delivery, Security, and Operability from the outset ➡️ https://bit.ly/3ASy8n0

📖 "The Software Developers’ Guidebook Amazon ➡️ https://amzn.to/4f9ozFK ebook version ➡️ https://leanpub.com/softwaredevelopersguidebook

📖 The original, award-winning "Continuous Delivery" book by Dave Farley and Jez Humble ➡️ https://amzn.to/2WxRYmx

📖 "Continuous Delivery Pipelines" by Dave Farley Paperback ➡️ https://amzn.to/3gIULlA ebook version ➡️ https://leanpub.com/cd-pipeline