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Serar Serar

Head of Product & Delivery

The hidden cost slowing AI delivery is how long it takes to trust a change is safe to ship. Here is what evaluation debt looks like and how teams build evaluation into infrastructure.
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Serar Serar

Head of Product & Delivery

Feature roadmaps assume the technical ground stays still. For AI products the model keeps improving underneath you, so your roadmap needs a capability layer as well as a feature layer.
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Gimyong

Lead Software Engineer

A working agentic development workflow that turns Jira tickets into reviewed pull requests, using Cursor agents for the boilerplate while a human approves every plan.
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Serar Serar

Head of Product & Delivery

AI productivity metrics measure throughput, so they keep rising even when decision quality on hard cases is sliding. Here is what to track instead.
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Serar Serar

Head of Product & Delivery

Why the build vs buy AI decision is usually framed wrong, and the three ownership questions to ask before approving an internal build.
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Stuart Oliver and Paolo Garcia

Retail Strategy Team

Five shifts from Shopify DotDev 2026 in Toronto: agentic commerce, Shopify POS, B2B and Collective, and the lesson from Shopify AI agent River.
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Syafiq Sarif

Lead Engineering Consultant

A senior engineer's guide to working with AI coding assistants: setting guardrails, writing tests first, and catching the pitfalls in review.
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Serar Serar

Head of Product & Delivery

Serar, Head of Product and Delivery at Restive, shares five insights from YOW! Tech Leaders Summit 2026 on AI, engineering judgment, team constraints, and where value gets made or lost.