THE MOST EXPENSIVE AI DECISION MAY BE THE ONE NOBODY DECIDED TO MAKE.
One developer tries an assistant. Another trusts it with a refactor. A manager buys seats. Nobody announces a policy, yet daily choices are already shaping how software is built, reviewed, and maintained. The team can gain real capability—or inherit expectations no one examined together.
AI4DEV is a live online seminar on AI-assisted software development with Howard Pearlmutter. We will look at opportunities across prototyping, coding, testing, documentation, interfaces, and existing-code comprehension. We will also look at the human questions that decide whether those opportunities pay: context, verification, ownership, adoption resistance, and what different people mean when they say a result is ready.
Howard has spent 51 paid years and more than 200 engagements bridging new technology, working software, and executive understanding. NASA, Apple, Disney, Xerox, HP, Kodak, CBS, and Capital One are among his development and consulting clients. He has been paid to present to professionals from IBM, AT&T, Oracle/Sun Microsystems, Intel, BT, T-Mobile/Deutsche Telekom, Nokia, NASA Ames, JPMorgan, Goldman Sachs, Barclays, and many more. At Telos Alliance, his AI-for-product-development seminar drew 47 people when about 20 were expected—including developers, managers, executives, and skeptics. John Schur praised his ability to address their concerns and show a careful path forward.
You do not need to write the company rulebook to have a stake in the next choice. Developers, technical leads, managers, product colleagues, executives, contractors, and independent professionals all live with the defaults. Put some of them in the same room on Thursday, October 15, 2026, 2–4 p.m. Mountain Time. Live online. $250 per person. Select one seat or several below.
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