InfoQ - Culture & Methods

Presentation: Complexity and Creativity in Software Engineering

Phillip Mortimer — Fri, 18 Sep 2026 11:00:00 GMT

Phillip Mortimer discusses the shift toward write-only software driven by AI code generation. He explains why traditional pull requests are broken and shares how engineering leaders can manage complexity by decoupling intent from implementation, automating code reviews, and building self-healing architecture to unleash developer creativity across senior engineering and architecture teams.

By Phillip Mortimer

Podcast: Signals and Levers: Building Thriving Engineering Organizations

Elisabeth Hendrickson, Joel Tosi — Fri, 18 Sep 2026 09:05:00 GMT

In this podcast Shane Hastie, Lead Editor for Culture & Methods spoke to Elisabeth Hendrickson and Joel Tosi about systems thinking as a lens for software delivery, the cultural "levers" leaders and teams can pull to shape organizations, and building thriving, sustainable teams amid AI-driven change.

By Elisabeth Hendrickson, Joel Tosi

Building an Internal Developer Platform with Artificial Intelligence

Ben Linders — Thu, 17 Sep 2026 11:11:00 GMT

Agents are becoming the new developer platform, using semantic search with data from tools like Git, Slack, and Jira for context. Things to consider are setting guardrails to block or allow things, and using logs, metrics, and traces to understand agent behavior.

By Ben Linders

Presentation: Teaching Engineers, Trusting AI: How Education Enabled Autonomous Code Review

Sarah Deitke — Wed, 16 Sep 2026 11:00:00 GMT

Sarah Deitke discusses how Duolingo drives cultural AI adoption beyond tooling access. She explains their internal AI literacy workshops and observability dashboards, then shares a case study on redesigning code review using an automated PR risk-assessment bot. Deitke demonstrates how pairing targeted developer education with safe AI guardrails speeds up delivery without increasing defect rates.

By Sarah Deitke

Presentation: Lead without a Ladder: How I Climbed into Engineering Leadership

Pauline Jepp — Tue, 15 Sep 2026 09:10:00 GMT

Pauline Jepp explains how systems thinking, rock climbing, and flocking behaviors apply to engineering leadership. She shares strategies for balancing team autonomy with alignment, supporting invisible work like mentorship, and navigating transitions from hands-on engineer to engineering leader while maintaining organizational trust and psychological safety.

By Pauline Jepp

Beyond Autonomous Teams in Software Product Development

Ben Linders — Thu, 10 Sep 2026 10:29:00 GMT

Autonomous teams are an article of faith in modern software development. The shape of our value determines what we can do; it determines our trade-offs between agency and coherence. We all have a purpose, and we all have agency to do something, hence the suggestion is moving from product focus to value center thinking.

By Ben Linders

Presentation: Accelerating Performance by Incrementally Integrating Rust into Existing Codebase

Lily Mara — Thu, 10 Sep 2026 09:34:00 GMT

Lily Mara explains how to avoid high-risk software rewrites through incremental FFI refactoring. She shares how engineering teams can replace Python bottlenecks with Rust via PyO3, demonstrating how to achieve dramatic function-level speedups, seamless integration testing, and meaningful infrastructure cost savings without microservice overhead.

By Lily Mara