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 This video is brought to you by CodeCrafters, a programming practice platform for software engineers, where you can learn pieces of tech by building your own. It's pretty cool. If you want to check it out: https://app.codecrafters.io/join?via=daniel-ciocirlan 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