AI Development Isn’t an Easy Button—with Aleksander Hakestad (Apart Tech)

About this episode

Prakash Chandran discusses with Aleksander Hakestad the complexities of building software in an AI-native world.

What if writing code isn’t actually the most important part of engineering? In this episode of Futureproof, Prakash Chandran sits down with Aleksander Hakestad, CTO and co-founder at Apart Tech, to explore what it really takes to build software in an AI-native world without losing quality, craft, or control. Aleksander explains why the best leaders stay hands-on so they can evaluate quality, why depth of expertise beats climbing the career ladder, and why communication becomes the true bottle...

People in this episode

Host: Prakash Chandran

Guest: Aleksander Hakestad

Topics covered

• AI development
• software engineering
• leadership
• quality control
• communication

Keywords

• AI
• software development
• engineering
• leadership
• quality assurance

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Organizations: Apart Tech

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