A convincing first pass is not the same as a decision you can ship.

When an AI assistant produces code in seconds, the speed is obvious. The cost of recovering missing context, reviewing the result, integrating it, testing it, and fixing what breaks may arrive later. If that cost exceeds the time saved, the apparent acceleration was an accounting error.

AI4DEV is a live online seminar with Howard Pearlmutter about making better decisions across AI-assisted software development. In two focused hours, examine where assistance can earn its place—in understanding existing systems, exploring requirements, prototyping, coding, testing, documentation, and design—and where a polished output can conceal work that still needs to be done. The subject is the whole development lifecycle, not a contest to generate the most code.

This is for developers who must maintain what gets accepted, architects weighing new options against real constraints, and leaders deciding how to invest without mistaking a demonstration for a dependable result. A developer and a decision maker from the same organization can take the same questions back to their team.

Howard has spent 51 paid years connecting technical possibility to working software and consequential decisions, across more than 200 engagements, primarily through companies he founded. His experience ranges from parallel-computing work for NASA Ames and supercomputer research at MIT's Laboratory for Computer Science to commercial software and advanced architecture teaching. When GM, Ford, and other major automakers needed to see sophisticated factory designs in a form executives could examine, he built the interactive reporting product that met that need. Valtech trusted him to teach advanced Java architecture to demanding professional audiences. He brings that combination of builder's judgment and clear explanation to today's AI decisions.

Tools will change. Your team will still have to decide what fits its system, what evidence makes a result trustworthy, and who is accountable after the assistant says “done.” Give those decisions two deliberate hours before another shortcut becomes a long-term commitment.

AI4DEV with Howard Pearlmutter

Thursday, December 17, 2026 · 2:00–4:00 p.m. Mountain Time

Live online · $250 ticket price per person

Choose the AI4DEV Live Seminar ticket for admission to this December 17 session.