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The AI Joy Gap: Why Some Developers Thrive While Others Struggle

Engineering Culture by InfoQ · 2026-05-08 · 27 min

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This is the Engineering Culture Podcast, from the people behind InfoQ.com and the QCon conferences. In this podcast, Shane Hastie, Lead Editor for Culture & Methods, spoke to Michael Parker, VP of Engineering at TurinTech AI, about bringing joy back to software development in the AI era, the emerging role of "factory architects" who orchestrate AI agents rather than write code directly, and the cultural divide between AI hype and the reality developers face on legacy codebases. Read a transcript of this interview: Newsletter:

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