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For most of three decades, "good code" had a definition. Then ChatGPT launched, and within months the canonical principles of software engineering — KISS, DRY, YAGNI, the lot — collapsed in value almost overnight.
Simon Raik-Allen, CTO at Mindset Health and a former Monash AI researcher who spent a decade building simulators to teach machines how to code, dove head-first into the new model. In this conversation he walks through what he gave up, what he kept, and what the new skill actually is — including why AI is still bad at architecture, why he refuses to let one coding agent touch its own tests, and why he calls this moment the developer's golden age.
Guest: Simon Raik-Allen, CTO, Mindset Health.
Hosted by Simon Elisha — former AWS Chief Technologist, 35+ years in enterprise technology.
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For most of three decades, "good code" had a definition. Then ChatGPT launched, and within months the canonical principles of software engineering — KISS, DRY, YAGNI, the lot — collapsed in value almost overnight.
Simon Raik-Allen, CTO at Mindset Health and a former Monash AI researcher who spent a decade building simulators to teach machines how to code, dove head-first into the new model. In this conversation he walks through what he gave up, what he kept, and what the new skill actually is — including why AI is still bad at architecture, why he refuses to let one coding agent touch its own tests, and why he calls this moment the developer's golden age.
Guest: Simon Raik-Allen, CTO, Mindset Health.
Hosted by Simon Elisha — former AWS Chief Technologist, 35+ years in enterprise technology.
Subscribe to The Qualified Answer newsletter: https://pages.thequalifiedanswer.com/subscribe
Learn the strategies we discussed in this episode - head to https://pages.thequalifiedanswer.com/profile for our full training program.
Want cool merch? [NULL]Shirt: https://shop.nullshirt.com/