S5:E168 (VIDEO)🎙️ LIVE with Uberto Barbini

S5:E168🎙️ LIVE with Uberto Barbini
Leadership & Success Podcast with Coach BZ Season 5:Episode 168

Process Over Magic: Leadership, AI, and the Future of Software Engineering** 🤖💻🌎

Mark your calendars!
📅 **Wednesday, August 12, 2026**
⏰ **4:30 PM PT** — San Francisco, CA  
⏰ **7:30 PM ET** — Washington, D.C.  
⏰ **8:30 AM JST, Thursday, August 13** — Fukuoka, Japan 🇯🇵

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🌟 **Meet My Guest**

Uberto Barbini is a Senior Software Engineer at Kraken, technical author, international speaker, Google Developer Expert, open-source contributor, and longtime advocate for Test-Driven Development, Extreme Programming, Functional Programming, and Domain-Driven Design.

With decades of experience building and modernizing software across telecommunications, publishing, global banking, financial services, and technology, Uberto has worked with organizations including Vodafone, Standard Chartered, Citi, Springer Nature, and Kraken.

He is also a true polyglot programmer whose journey has taken him through Java, Kotlin, Python, Scala, Haskell, C#, Clojure, and more.

But our conversation will be about something bigger than programming:

**How should we LEAD when AI can increasingly do the work?**

📚 Uberto is the author of the newly released **_Process Over Magic: Beyond Vibe Coding_**, a timely exploration of how professionals can harness AI assistants without surrendering critical thinking, engineering discipline, accountability, or control.

His message is one every leader should hear:

**AI is powerful—but it isn't magic. Process matters. Judgment matters. Humans still matter.**

🤖 **What You Will Learn…**

✨ What “vibe coding” actually means—and when it becomes dangerous.

✨ Why AI should accelerate human capability without replacing human accountability.

✨ Why Uberto believes developers must **“keep the edge”** and remain in control as AI increases speed.

✨ How rules, testing, guardrails, and disciplined processes can make AI-assisted work safer and more reliable.

✨ How AI can help developers understand and modernize massive legacy systems.

✨ Why AI may make architecture, domain expertise, cybersecurity, communication, critical thinking, and judgment **MORE valuable—not less**.

✨ How organizations can introduce AI without sacrificing quality, security, trust, or engineering craftsmanship.

✨ Why AI can become an extraordinary **teacher and thinking partner**, not merely a machine for generating work.

✨ What young engineers should learn today to remain valuable in an AI-powered future.

✨ What leadership looks like when humans and increasingly capable AI agents work side by side.

One question will sit at the center of our conversation:

**When AI can generate the work, who is responsible for understanding it, challenging it, verifying it, and ultimately owning the outcome?**

My answer begins with leadership.

**We can delegate tasks. We can automate work. But we cannot automate accountability.**

💬 **Join the Conversation!**

🗺️ Where are you tuning in from? Drop your city, region, or country in the comments!

🙏🏽 What is one thing you are grateful for today?

💬 Got questions about **leadership, AI, vibe coding, software engineering, responsible AI, or the future of work** for Uberto? Post them below—we will answer as many as possible LIVE!

👇 **Your Turn:**

➡️ What are your three takeaways from this episode?

➡️ What’s one leadership insight you’re applying this week?

➡️ Tag a colleague, developer, technology leader, student, junior officer, or teammate who could benefit from this conversation. ❤️🙏🏾

**Mission FIRST, People ALWAYS.**

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