Podcast: Beyond Coding
A sit-down, brutally honest, conversation about modern software engineering
A few weeks back I was invited to sit down and have a conversation with the amazing host and engineer Patrick Akil on the Beyond Coding show. An honest conversation about Software Engineering and AI, without frills, buzzwords and nonsense.
I shared my observations on how the industry is obsessing over coding speed, but that was only ever level one. The real shift is in who defines the best solution, not who writes the code fast.
We discuss:
Why we need to leave the “faster coding” dogma behind and move onto writing great software at scale.
The counterintuitive research showing junior engineers adopt AI faster than seniors
“Coding is cheap, software is expensive” and what that means for your career
How the boundary between product and engineering is disappearing
Why most AI coding tools are 80% the same and what to focus on instead
Whether you’re early in career and struggling to land a role, or a senior engineer rethinking where your value lies, in this discussion I break down what actually matters when the coding part becomes cheap.