Doug Seven

GenAI


  • Product Managers Have Always Been Prompt Engineers…

    We Just Didn’t Know It. The skill that made you good at writing user stories is the same one that will make you good at working with AI agents. The audience changed. The core competency didn’t. For most of my career, one of the clearest signals of a strong PM has been their ability to… …Read More

    Product Managers Have Always Been Prompt Engineers…

  • The Hidden Cost of “Free” AI Code

    Technical Debt at Machine Speed AI coding agents can generate a working REST API in 30 seconds. What they can’t tell you is whether you’ll regret it in 30 days. I’ve spent the past three years building and deploying AI coding tools, first with Amazon Q Developer (formerly CodeWhisperer) and now enabling 14,000+ developers at… …Read More

    The Hidden Cost of “Free” AI Code

  • A Love Letter to AI Skeptics (From Someone Who Built the Thing You Don’t Trust)

    Valentine’s Day seems like a weird time to write about AI coding tools. But if we’re being honest, every conversation about AI and software development is a weird kind of love triangle between developers who love coding, tools that promise to make it easier, and a whole lot of trust issues in between. I built… …Read More

    A Love Letter to AI Skeptics (From Someone Who Built the Thing You Don’t Trust)

  • Trust Without Verification

    The AI Skills Supply Chain Is Repeating History’s Mistakes The AI Agent Skills ecosystem just hit 13.4% critical vulnerabilities. If you’ve been in software long enough, you’ve seen this movie before. The question is whether we’ll learn from it this time, or wait for the inevitable breach that forces our hand. Snyk’s ToxicSkills research represents… …Read More

    Trust Without Verification

  • The 50% Question: What Google’s AI Coding Milestone Actually Means

    A few months ago, Google shared that AI is now writing 50% of their new code. My first reaction: that’s incredible. My second reaction: wait, what does that actually mean? I’m genuinely excited about this milestone. I spent the last few years thinking deeply about generative AI, from co-founding Amazon Q Developer (formerly CodeWhisperer) to… …Read More

    The 50% Question: What Google’s AI Coding Milestone Actually Means

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