Jeremy Howard

Jeremy Howard is the founding CEO of Answer.AI and co-founder of fast.ai, focused on making deep learning and applied AI more accessible through research, products, open-source software, and education.

AI Engineering Must Preserve Craft as Work Shifts to Verification

At AI Engineer Melbourne, Jeremy Howard, Annie Vella and Mic Neale each argued against treating AI adoption as an automatic productivity upgrade. Howard warned that coding tools can simulate autonomy and flow while eroding mastery; Vella presented research showing engineers feel more productive even as parts of developer experience deteriorate; and Neale made the case for pooling idle edge devices as an alternative to defaulting all inference to centralized, metered infrastructure.

AI EngineerJun 4, 202619 min read