Katrina Delos Reyes

I’m an engineering leader working at the intersection of software, advanced development, and consequential technology. Software engineering is my home base, and it is where I first watch new capabilities meet real constraints: deadlines, correctness, safety, accountability, and the people responsible for all of them.

Why software first

Software is one of the first fields where AI-produced work is showing up at scale. Code can now be generated, tested, reviewed, and explained by machines, often faster than people can check it. That makes software a useful early warning system. Questions that will eventually matter everywhere show up here first: what counts as evidence, who is accountable, how expertise forms, and what a team is for.

The investigation

I call the broader body of work The Inner Intelligence Era: an ongoing investigation into AI, software, work, and what happens to humans when intelligence becomes abundant. It takes four forms: Essays make long-form arguments. Research asks specific questions and shows its methods. The Observatory tracks signals of change. Field Notes hold what isn’t settled yet.

I try to work in the open, with my uncertainty visible. When I have a hypothesis, I call it one. When the evidence changes, the writing gets updated and dated.

How I approach the work

My work gives me the questions. Public evidence gives me the material.

My professional experience shapes which questions seem important. It does not supply the evidence. Nothing here discloses or relies on confidential employer information: no internal metrics, programs, customers, architectures, or anecdotes, anonymized or not. Public arguments have to stand on public evidence.

The test I hold myself to:

Could an intelligent outsider reconstruct the factual basis of this argument using the sources provided?

Views here are my own and do not represent any employer.

Background

I studied computer science and mathematics at the University of Maryland, College Park. Since then I’ve worked as a software and systems engineer and moved into engineering leadership, mostly in environments where software has to be right: DevSecOps, agile transformation, and advanced development for high-consequence systems.