Victor Rentea on Agentic Engineering, Training, and Getting Promoted with AI

Victor Rentea is a software engineer and architect, and an instructor. He's trained thousands of people in person at 150+ companies around the world. He's the highest-energy trainer and speaker I've come across.

You can find Victor's workshops at https://victorrentea.ro

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0:00 Intro
1:03 What Victor's training still teaches after AI
4:57 AI as a promotion: architect, product, or QA ninja
9:35 LGTM fatigue and multi-LLM code review
16:06 Victor's agentic setup: mouse-driven, voice-dictated
18:27 Software craftsmanship in the agentic era
22:25 Victor's training style and high energy
27:05 Handling contradictions in the room
31:47 Memorable trainings and the 80-senior room
36:12 How to start as a trainer/consultant
44:29 Juniors and skill erosion in the AI era
50:24 Over-engineering, hexagonal architecture, and AI
55:00 Tests, Gherkin, and acceptance-driven development
1:01:24 How Victor learns: newsletters and bright people
1:03:21 The JPoint failure that made Victor a better speaker
1:05:53 Advice for mid-senior devs riding the AI wave