Scaling AI Adoption Across Engineering Teams with Ryan J. Salva

About this episode

Ryan J. Salva discusses the challenges and strategies for scaling AI adoption in engineering teams.

"The future is already here, it's just unevenly distributed.", says Ryan J. Salva, Google and GitHub dev tools veteran. Ryan also shares: How OpenAI nearly took down GitHub's servers and how that incident seeded the creation of Copilot The five stages of autonomous engineering and why most teams are stuck between stage three and four Why DevOps and SRE are the next untouched frontier of AI The three-step playbook for rolling out AI tools across large engineering teams without regressing on quality Why context, not the model, is the most important investment in AI-assisted development. About Ryan J. Salva Ryan is an experienced developer, product manager, and founder with 25 years of experience building developer tools at startups, Microsoft. GitHub, and now Google. Ryan leads product teams responsible for developer onboarding, code authoring, build and deployment systems, logging, observability, and end-to-end developer experiences. About Hangar DX (https://dx.community/) The Hangar is a community of senior DevOps and senior software engineers focused on developer experience. This is a space where vetted, experienced professionals can exchange ideas, share hard-earned wisdom…

People in this episode

Host: Ankit Jain

Guest: Ryan J. Salva

Topics covered

• AI adoption
• engineering teams
• DevOps
• SRE
• autonomous engineering
• developer tools

Keywords

• AI tools
• developer experience
• Copilot
• autonomous engineering stages
• DevOps
• SRE
• engineering productivity

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: Google, GitHub, OpenAI, Microsoft, Hangar DX

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