Taming the Tools
How Engineering Leaders Drive Real-World AI Productivity Gains
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Engineering teams are rapidly adopting AI coding tools like GitHub Copilot, Cursor, Claude Code, Windsurf, and more — often with mixed results. For engineering leaders, keeping up is a challenge. This is the biggest change management shift in software development history. The potential is enormous, but turning promising trials into consistent, high-impact workflows can be a struggle.
This webinar covers examples of skills your team needs to build, and strategic practices needed to drive real adoption and measurable gains from AI coding tools.
In this webinar you will learn:
- Frameworks for choosing the right tools for your team and overcoming skepticism.
- Best practices for onboarding, teaching prompt design, and maintaining code quality with AI.
- Practical strategies to scale adoption across teams and avoid traps like scope creep, prompt fatigue, and unreviewed code.
- How engineers can use AI tools as if they were junior developers—setting expectations, reviewing output, and building repeatable workflows.
Alan Laser
Alan Laser is a Software Architect and Fractional CTO/VPE at TechEmpower, where he leads technical reviews and supports clients across the entire SDLC. With over 20 years of experience, he has designed, developed, and managed software systems for organizations at every stage—from early startup to enterprise scale. Alan is especially passionate about helping teams adopt generative AI and build real-world applications with large language models (LLMs). He is based in Brooklyn, New York.
Mike Smith
Mike Smith is the Director of Open Source Initiatives at TechEmpower, where he helps companies, from lean startups to large enterprises, evaluate and adopt AI tools across their entire software development lifecycle. An AI SDLC champion, Mike has led development teams both with and without AI assistance, bringing a practical, grounded perspective to emerging tooling. He’s always learning, building, and sharing — both within TechEmpower and with the broader engineering community. He loves baseball and is based in Los Angeles, California.
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