My wife, who doesn’t have any technical background, built a real app with AI, that she uses every day. So if someone with no previous experience can build working software now, what’s left for software engineers? During this presentation we'll explore what makes a software engineer relevant in the AI era. An engineer needs to know foundations, judgment, responsibility... Programming is easier. Software engineering isn’t.
Nate Lemos is the co-founder of MakingFriends.app and an experienced engineer with over 12 years building systems for all sizes of business. Nate was a key contributor of the Halo Infinite backend and migration of the Azure Portal to Typescript. Now, Nate writes enterprise AI agents for thousands of users at ECI and runs his own app to help people meet IRL.
