India, Oct. 15 -- Every workplace has rules that everyone knows but that are hard to keep track of. In an office kitchen it's labelling your leftovers. In a software company it's rules like "anything that touches customer data must check who is asking for it". Teams write these rules down. Some now keep a plain-text file of house rules just for the AI assistants that write much of their code. Even so, a rule works best when someone checks it, and that someone is usually a senior engineer reading a colleague's work line by line.

Throughout his career, Daksh Miglani has specialised in spotting where systems rely on someone's close attention, and engineering ways for that attention to scale. His latest focus is giving that senior engineer t...