Serdias Podcast

. The Migration of Engineering Rigor As AI takes over code production, engineering rigor does not disappear; it shifts to other areas. Rigor is migrating upstream to specification review, as detailed plans and structured formats become essential to produce correct AI-generated code. It is also moving into test-driven development (TDD), which acts as a form of prompt engineering to prevent agents from writing tests that verify broken behavior. Furthermore, rigor is transitioning into risk mapping—matching human verification to the "blast radius" of the code—and leveraging type systems and constraints to make incorrect AI-generated code unrepresentable.

2. The Emer...