A software engineer's toolkit in the AI era (keynote by Microsoft's Principal SE Bogdan Beda)
Bogdan Beda is a Principal Software Engineer at Microsoft, working on Copilot for Work backend, on a non-deterministic product using a codebase that is increasingly being generated by AI.
In his presentation at our applydata Data & AI Meetup in Bucharest, Romania, Bogdan explores the new essential toolkit for the AI era, moving beyond basic prompt engineering to mastering product development, from system design decisions to validating outputs.
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00:00 Intro applydata Meetup
00:10 Introduction to Copilot & how to handle it
04:10 Vibecoding
05:50 Specs to code
07:54 The problem: nobody knows what they want
09:24 The one-shot experiment trap
10:55 About technical debt
12:12 About agents & iterative orchestration
15:00 Using agents in the design phase
20:40 Breakdown of build phase
22:10 Validating outputs
27:00 The main message: foundations that matter & what that means for you (as junior software engineer)