20 tech leaders on evaluating engineers:
Learning velocity matters.
But speed only pays off when it’s pointed at the right problem. Almost nobody interviews for problem selection.
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In the 1990s, the industry was certain mainframe developers were obsolete.
Today, 70% of global business transactions still run on mainframes.
The average COBOL programmer is 60 years old. Salaries: $121K–$150K.
The "dead" skill became irreplaceable.
Water cooling shows where this leads.
Standard knowledge in the '80s. Obsolete by 2010. Now Goldman Sachs projects liquid-cooled AI servers will go from 15% of deployments in 2024 to 76% by 2026.
The engineers who understand it? Suddenly very hard to find.
The companies that navigate this best won't be the ones adopting AI fastest.
They'll be the ones building AI fluency and systems depth simultaneously — instead of trading one for the other.
Full piece on what good engineering leadership does about it: open.substack.com/pub/asieme…
We are going live TODAY with a conversation we have been building toward all month.
Andy and Eric have been testing AI agent systems against real product specs, comparing notes on what works and what breaks - REGISTER BELOW!
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We put together a session on what AI is actually doing, and not doing, for companies like yours. It is about 40 minutes...
Check out "When Is It Time for a Major System Implementation — and When Is It Not?" below!
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At Inventive, we see it all the time: scaling tech isn’t a tooling problem ⚙️ it’s an enforcement problem 📏
Our CEO Andrew Siemer was featured in @ForbesCouncils:
“When compliance, security and cost controls are enforced through code, complexity becomes manageable.”
We were featured in @ForbesTechCncl discussing where reinforcement learning human oversight works best.
On the factory floor, AI alone isn’t enough. Context matters. Operators matter.
That’s where real performance gains happen.
Check it out 👉 forbes.com/councils/forbeste…
More data ≠ better decisions.
As visibility improves, hesitation often follows. Internal metrics lag markets, customers shift, and efficiency gaps widen.
Clarity comes from knowing what to trust and when to act 🎯
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☎️ Call us when...
your systems technically work, but progress feels slower than it should. ⚙️
Small changes feel risky.
Only a few people know how things really work.
That quiet friction is worth paying attention to.
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Most teams don’t fail at AI because the tech is bad.
They fail because they lock themselves in too early.
AI isn’t “set it and forget it.”
It’s infrastructure — build it like you plan to grow. 🚀
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