· ai-devtools
Presentation: The Ladder Is Missing Rungs: Engineering Progression When AI Ate the Middle
He explains the "supervision paradox," where reliance on AI tools disrupts junior skill development, risks institutional context loss, and threatens the long-term engineering pipeline needed to oversee autonomous systems effectively.
Alasdair Allan, CTO at Negroni Venture Studios and interim CTO at Evaro, works at the intersection of open hardware, ML, and emerging tech. A former astrophysics researcher and ex-Head of Documentation at Raspberry Pi, he authored eight books and over a hundred academic papers.
QCon London empowers software development by facilitating the spread of knowledge and innovation in the developer community. A practitioner-driven conference, QCon is designed for technical team leads, architects, engineering directors, and project managers who influence innovation in their teams. Alasdair Allan: Not 5 years ago, but 12 months ago now, almost to the day in fact, someone else stood up at an entirely different conference in New York, and during their talk they said this.
