Ship to Production Without Code Review? with Jade Rubick

"Engineering teams need to be thinking about how they can get out of verifying every line of code, because otherwise they're going to be completely buried in that and will absolutely be the bottleneck."

In this episode of the HangarDX podcast, Ankit Jain, co-founder and CEO of Aviator, talks to Jade Rubick, engineering leadership advisor and coach, about: 

- Why traditional engineering roles are blurring and teams are feeling the squeeze between rising expectations and unchanged role definitions
- How the role of verification engineer could reshape the way teams build and ship software, and
- the 3 predictions for software engineering in 2027 that Jade is willing to be wrong about

00:00 Introduction and Jade's Background
02:44 Current Changes in Engineering Organization Structures
05:18 Blurring Roles and Responsibilities in Tech Teams
07:09 The Return of Coding for Engineering Leaders
10:00 Ownership and Role Evolution in AI-Driven Engineering
14:22 Automated Verification Engineers and Testing Pipelines
20:09 Reducing Verification Bottlenecks with AI
22:23 The Role and Responsibilities of Verification Engineers
25:52 Measuring Engineering Productivity in the AI Era
27:26 Predictions for AI and Engineering in 2027
30:33 The Impact of AI on Code Maintenance and Complexity
31:47 Final Thoughts and Future Outlook

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