Podcast: What Does It Really Mean To Program With AI: A Conversation with Joy Ebertz

Michael Stiefel: Welcome to The Architect's Podcast where we discuss what it means to be an architect and how architects actually do their job. Today's guest is Joy Ebertz, who is a principal software engineer at Imprint where she is currently trying to detangle their configuration. She's primarily a backend focused developer with extensive experience in microservice architecture, authorization frameworks, creating REST API standards, feature flagging, and more. Prior to Imprint, she worked at Harness, Split, and Box in staff plus roles. In addition to designing software and writing a lot of code with the help of AI, she also maintains a blog with both career and technical topics. In her free time, she does a lot of traveling, reading, and running ridiculously long distances, mostly on trails. It's great to have you here on the podcast. And I'd like to start out by asking you, were you trained as an architect? How did you become an architect? What is an Architect? [01:09] Joy Ebertz: Yes. Well, thanks for having me, first of all. I guess like most career paths, it was a bit meandering. I mean, if you had asked me pretty soon out of college, "Where do you…