Great AI Engineering Habits
Tuesday, 7:30 PM MDT
The AI revolution isn’t coming — it’s already here, in our editors, our pipelines, our incident channels, our platforms. But while everyone is racing to bolt “AI-powered” onto their products, a quieter, more consequential truth is emerging:
The future won’t belong to teams with the biggest models. It will belong to teams with the best habits.
This keynote is a fast-paced journey into the craft of AI engineering — the behaviours, reflexes, and mental disciplines that separate teams who build safe, reliable, explainable AI systems from those who unleash unpredictable ones into production.
Through vivid stories of teams who got these habits right — and cautionary tales of those who didn’t — you’ll see why AI engineering is less about algorithms and more about discipline: the daily behaviours that make AI predictable, governable, and safe in the wild.
About Russell Miles
Russ Miles is on a mission to help engineers thrive in one of the most demanding—and most impactful—environments humans have ever created: modern software systems.
A developer at heart and a leader by necessity, Russ combines expertise in Platform Engineering, Agentic AI, Chaos & Resilience Engineering, showing teams how to move from firefighting to flow, from fragility to antifragility, and from accidental complexity to intentional design. His work blends hard-won industry experience with clarity, practical habits, and real world stories.
Through his two ongoing series—A Software Enchiridion and Engineering Agents—his books, workshops, keynotes, open-source contributions, and daily craft, Russ equips developers with the practices, habits, maps, maxims, and mental models needed to navigate the accelerating AI-augmented age of software.
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