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The Future of Software Development
The Meeting
“Hey, thanks for coming in,” said Brandon to the assembled team.
“Before I start, I’d like to introduce John.” He waved his hand toward a tall,
sandy-haired man standing at the back of the room. “John is our Learning
Engineer.”
A murmur spread around the room. The job of Learning Engineer had
never been filled on this project, and only one other project in the whole
company had one. Among the more-technical people and domain engi-
neers, it was considered a bit of a fad.
“Just more searching for a silver bullet,” Maria had shared with Praveen
when they had talked about the concept a few weeks earlier. “It’s not like
it’s one of the really important roles on a project,” she said.
“Not like an Ontologist, ...