The High Cost of Cheap Code | Diamantino Almeida, TIE Lisbon Meetup

AI has made code cheap to write, but expensive to understand, review and keep running. In this talk from TIE's first Lisbon meetup, Diamantino Almeida explains what speed is costing engineering teams, from overloaded senior engineers to juniors who never build the foundations, and how leaders can bring attention back to good engineering. Diamantino is an engineering leader with more than 20 years of experience in platform engineering, including leading the team behind the e-commerce backend of the Ocado Smart Platform. Today he coaches engineering teams and companies through the shift to AI. Diamantino covers: 1. Why chasing speed moves problems forward instead of solving them 2. What happens to senior engineers who spend their days reviewing code nobody fully understands 3. Why putting juniors on AI too soon costs them their foundations and costs seniors their mentoring 4. The risk of blind trust when "AI did it" becomes the answer 5. Practical ways to bring attention back, from proof-of-concept sessions to his Secure, Support, Scale framework 📬 Looking for practical frameworks and leadership insights? Subscribe to the Thriving In Engineering newsletter: https://thrivinginengineering.substac... Diamantino's details: Newsletter: https://newsletter.diamantinoalmeida.... LinkedIn:   / diamantinoalmeida   Time stamps: [00:00:00] - The High Cost of Cheap Code [00:00:52] - A Lesson From the Norton Ghost Days [00:03:45] - When LLMs Write and Fix Everything [00:06:23] - The Old Road to Mafra [00:09:15] - What AI Is Doing to Senior Engineers [00:11:08] - The Risk of Blind Trust in AI [00:14:28] - Three Habits That Bring Attention Back [00:16:00] - Rethinking How We Measure Success [00:18:30] - Secure, Support, Scale [00:21:37] - Keep the Old Road #EngineeringLeadership #AIinTech #SoftwareEngineering #TechLeadership