Julien Simon - Software Engineering After AI: What Changes and What Doesn’t

Julien Simon has spent years explaining cutting-edge tech to the world — first at AWS, then Hugging Face, and RCAI.In this conversation, he shares how he moved from CTO roles into tech evangelism, what it was like pushing for honest benchmarking inside big tech, and why trust matters more than marketing.We get into:The real role of a tech evangelistWhy benchmarking caused internal frictionThe flood of AI-generated content and what it means for trustWhether software engineering as we know it is overHow AI coding assistants are changing workflowsWhy young engineers may want to rethink their career pathsJulien also talks about his move into private equity and helping portfolio companies adopt AI at scale.This one is candid, sharp, and forward-looking.