Meet Shai Ben Shalom, Senior Software Engineer at Torque (ex-Microsoft)
Theme: AI-Assisted Enterprise Coding (and hackathons...)
Highlights from the conversation:
- Your job just changed completely: Developers are becoming "mini-architects" instead of code writers. AI writes the code now, but you need to focus on security, scalability, and system design to make it production-ready.
- Put everything in Git for smarter AI: Keep all docs and code in one place so AI agents can understand your full project. Shai uses specialized agents for code reviews and testing that know the entire codebase context.
- Platform engineering makes you unstoppable: Learning the full stack from Kubernetes to databases eliminates dependencies. You can deploy and fix anything without waiting for other teams to help you.
- The gap isn't technical anymore, it's imagination: APIs and tools are ready - the question is how creative you can get with what problems to solve. From natural language database queries to AI troubleshooting your infrastructure.
Enjoy!
