AI Ecosystem Intelligence Explorer

Many of us became software engineers because we found our identity in building things. Not managing things. Not overseeing things. Building things. With our own hands, our own minds, our own code. But that identity is being challenged. AI coding assistants aren’t just changing how we write software - they’re fundamentally transforming who we are. We’re shifting from creators to orchestrators, from builders to overseers. From engineers to something that looks suspiciously like… managers.

From idea to mobile app in seconds.

With a ridiculously high code completions limit.

My guest today is Colin Matthews.Colin is a rockstar instructor who teaches a popular AI Prototyping for PMs course on building AI apps without coding skills…

I’ve been scaling up my work with Cursor’s AI in the last three months. More than line completion, I am using it to help me work through and implement solutions; trying to push what I can get done.

On today’s episode of The Pragmatic Engineer, I’m joined by Chip Huyen, a computer scientist, author of the freshly published O’Reilly book AI Engineering, a…