Katrina Delos Reyes

Katrina Delos Reyes

Software is changing first.Humans are the bigger story.

I write about AI, software engineering, work, and what happens to humans when intelligence becomes abundant.

The Inner Intelligence Era

An ongoing investigation into AI, software, work, and the changing role of human judgment.

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Current investigation

Research · Researching · Software Is Changing First

What counts as trustworthy evidence when machines write the code, the tests, and the review?

AI increasingly takes part on both sides of software development, generating systems and helping verify what was generated. What counts as trustworthy software assurance when implementation, tests, review, and evidence can all be produced by machines?

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The Inner Intelligence Era

Artificial intelligence is making capabilities that once took substantial human time, expertise, and effort cheap and abundant. Software may be one of the first places where that change is visible at scale.

The interesting question is not only what AI can do. It is what happens next, to the people who do the work, the organizations built around them, and the institutions built around those. These are open questions, not predictions:

  1. What becomes scarce when intelligence becomes abundant?
  2. What happens to expertise?
  3. How do people become senior if machines do the junior work?
  4. How should organizations change?
  5. What should people learn?
  6. How do we establish trust when machines produce both the artifacts and the evidence?
  7. What stays valuable about human judgment, responsibility, agency, taste, relationships, and lived experience?

The Observatory

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Tracking the transition from software outward.

Quantitative and qualitative evidence on how AI capabilities turn into changes in behavior, work, organizations, institutions, and human experience.

Capability
What can AI systems actually do?
Behavior
How are people changing how they work?
Work
How are tasks, skills, roles, and organizations changing?
Economics
What is becoming abundant, and what is becoming scarce?
Institutions
How are education, government, defense, healthcare, regulation, and other systems responding?
Humans
What is happening to identity, ambition, creativity, relationships, responsibility, and purpose?

First case study · PlannedSoftware Is Changing First

Recent work

  1. Observatory · Planned

    Software Is Changing First

    The Observatory's first case study follows how AI capabilities in software engineering turn into changes in how engineers work, how teams are organized, and what skills are valued.

    Future of software engineering · AI and work · Coding agents · Engineering organizations

About

I’m Katrina Delos Reyes, an engineering leader working at the intersection of software, advanced development, and consequential technology.

Software engineering is my home base. I’m interested in what happens when increasingly capable AI changes not only how we build technology, but the skills, organizations, institutions, and assumptions built around human intelligence.

This site is where I investigate those questions in public.

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