In this episode of Guidance Counselor 2.0, Taylor Desseyn talks with Peter Bell, founder and CTO of Gather.dev, a community for senior engineering leaders navigating agentic engineering.

He wrote the O'Reilly book on Scaling AI Adoption in Engineering, hosts the O'Reilly CTO Hour, facilitates executive summits at KubeCon for CNCF, and has taught Digital Literacy and Data Science at Columbia Business School.The topic: software factories are coming, whether engineers like it or not. Today's coding agents can ship messy code — but the era of artisanally crafting every line in an IDE is ending. This isn't the death of software engineering; it's a shift in the level of abstraction.

Peter breaks down how engineering leaders are thinking about AI adoption, and how you can position yourself — personally and professionally — to make the most of what's coming.