Marc Brooker

in a relevant way, in a positive way.

And so really, I think my advice for folks is you kinda gotta get building, like you gotta get back into it.

You need to deeply understand how the practice of building software and the practice of designing software has changed and is continuing to change.

And so the challenge is how do I, you know, really take advantage of all of this knowledge and expertise that I've built up in my career and be super curious and be super hands-on and really be in the details.

And the good news for that, well, I think there's two bits of good news.

One of them is because of these new tools, time spent as a practitioner is so much more leveraged than it is today.

You can build such cool stuff during that period of time.

The amount of kind of...

wasted time and boilerplate and so on is so much smaller and so you really do have this opportunity and the other one is again like why did you know why did we get into the space well i didn't get into it so i could go to meetings and sound smart i got into it because i love learning and because i love building technology and because i love you know solving my customers problems and because i love you know learning about new you know new technologies and learning new things and

And there's more opportunity to do that than ever before, again, you know, because of this new set of tools and the leverage that comes with them.

And so it really is getting back to, you know, why are you here?

Why did you get into this career?

And I think it really gets us as technology-focused people closer to our original answer to that.

It's really obvious to me right now when I speak to, you know, practitioners, you know, who and who isn't using a modern set of agentic powered developer practices and the people who are

have these really interesting things to say about the strengths and weaknesses of those approaches and the work that still needs to be done and the integrations that still need to be done and the things that are working and aren't.

And the people who aren't using them hands-on have such a poor mental model of how they work, what they're good at, what they're not good at, that the things they say about them tend to be essentially fiction.

And so I think we are in this minute that if you aren't doing it hands-on, your opinion about it is very likely to be completely wrong.

And that takes a level of humility to admit that it's tough.

It's tough for folks with fancy titles and it's tough for folks with distinguished careers.

But I think it's a must.