THE MOST EXPENSIVE AI DECISION MAY BE THE ONE NOBODY DECIDED TO MAKE.
A developer starts using an assistant. Another trusts it with a refactor. A manager buys seats. Security asks for caution. A product deadline moves closer. Nobody announces a strategy, but the organization is already living with one.
The question is not only whether AI can write code. It is what your team is quietly teaching itself to trust—and whether that habit will help you build better products or leave somebody else to discover the cost.
AI4DEV—AI for Software Development Organizations—is Howard Pearlmutter's live online seminar on Thursday, October 15, 2026, from 2:00 to 4:00 p.m. Mountain Time. Admission is $250 per person.
THE PRESSURE IS REAL IN EVERY SEAT.
Developers may love the speed and resent the almost-right answer that takes longer to repair. Experienced colleagues may feel that their hard-won judgment is being measured against a machine's output count. Managers need to help experimenters and skeptics work together while deadlines continue. Product leaders must decide what a prototype actually proves. Executives hear confident, conflicting advice and still have to set direction.
Those are not five different AI problems. They are five views of the same development organization. A blanket ban can cost opportunity. Unexamined use can make yesterday's shortcut tomorrow's maintenance burden. A tool subscription alone does not create the shared understanding needed to move well.
AI4DEV builds that foundation. Howard will examine where AI can help across requirements, existing-code comprehension, prototyping, coding, testing, documentation, and interfaces. He will connect those possibilities to the context, verification, architecture, security, product judgment, and team dynamics that determine whether speed becomes value.
The tools will keep changing. Mental models for asking better questions can remain useful across the next model, vendor, and workflow. You do not need to control a company-wide policy to benefit. You may be the person asked to implement a decision made elsewhere—or the person trying to make the team safe to learn.
WHY HOWARD PEARLMUTTER?
Howard has spent 51 paid years bridging new technology, working systems, and the people accountable for using them, chiefly through companies he founded and more than 200 engagements. His development and consulting clients include NASA, Apple, Disney, Xerox, HP, Kodak, CBS, Fujitsu, CSC, Capital One, Symantec, and the Financial Times.
Organizations have also paid him to present to professionals from IBM, AT&T, Oracle/Sun Microsystems, Intel, BT British Telecom, T-Mobile/Deutsche Telekom, Nokia, NASA Ames, Xerox PARC, JPMorgan, Goldman Sachs, Barclays, and many more across five continents. Valtech returned to him for advanced Java architecture training and strategic briefings when emerging technologies had to make sense to demanding technical and executive audiences.
At Telos Alliance, a custom AI-for-product-development seminar expected about 20 people and drew 47. Software and hardware developers, product and project leaders, executives, and skeptics all came. John Schur, president of Telos Alliance Media Solutions, praised Howard for meeting their concerns and showing a careful path forward. That is exactly the kind of range a development organization needs when AI is changing the work in different ways for different people.
Howard's perspective does not start with the current chatbot wave. He worked with LISP in 1974 and FORTH from 1978, researched supercomputing at MIT and parallel computing for NASA Ames, and built commercial software with extensible-language techniques. He still builds for the AI era. He has seen what happens when a powerful new capability becomes useful only after people learn how to connect it to the rest of the system.
MAKE THE NEXT TWO HOURS COUNT.
If you build, manage, review, fund, or depend on software development, take a seat. If several people in your organization are already living with different AI assumptions, bring them together. The $250 ticket is open to organizational buyers and independent professionals alike.
Do not let the first clear conversation about AI happen after a costly surprise.
Get your ticket: https://tixy.ticketspice.com/ai4dev-the-engineering-decisions-behind-ai-assisted-software
Explore the shared-practice path first: https://ai4dev-leaders.aigenexus.intelligency.us/
AI4DEV with Howard Pearlmutter
Thursday, October 15, 2026 · 2:00–4:00 p.m. Mountain Time
Live online · $250 per person