Google Fellow Milanfar argues AI still needs engineers in keynote speech
docmilanfar · x · 2026-10-10
Google Fellow Milanfar delivered a keynote, "The Grammar of Innovation: Why AI Needs Engineers." Opening with an anecdote about citing ChatGPT for a statistic a year ago, he notes AI tools have become far more reliable and central to work since.
His core argument: engineering should be understood not just as a noun (profession, title, institution) but as a verb — to engineer is to make what we know and can build work in the real world, under real constraints and real consequences. He uses this framing to explore what engineers' roles mean in the AI era.
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