Russ Miles is a Principal Engineer in Agentic Engineering at TechTalk, where he helps teams thrive in one of software's harshest and most consequential frontiers: building systems alongside AI. He is the author of The Sovereign Engineer series and the creator of Habitat Thinking, a framework for treating engineering environments as habitats to be cultivated rather than factories to be optimised. Through talks, workshops, consultancy, books, and open source, Russ helps people navigate the complicated and the complex to do
their best work in the age of agentic software.
Russ writes two Substack publications — A Software Enchiridion on the craft and philosophy of engineering, and Engineering Agents on building software alongside AI.
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