{"podcast":{"title":"The Engineering Leadership Podcast","slug":"the-engineering-leadership-podcast-743839","podcast_index_feed_id":743839,"rss_url":"https://feeds.simplecast.com/Z8Dl_qAv","website_url":"https://sfelc.com/podcasts","image_url":"https://image.simplecastcdn.com/images/680c6af5-128e-43b5-ba76-69958a47e058/c815f880-4518-4bce-82dd-fe523ac87659/3000x3000/2243906-1586356480016-19e6fdddd5fb1.jpg?aid=rss_feed","author":"The Engineering Leadership Community (ELC)","episode_count":271,"summary":"We share the most critical perspectives, habits & examples of great software engineering leaders to help evolve leadership in the tech industry. Join our community of software engineering leaders @ www.sfelc.com!","last_synced_at":"2026-06-11T10:19:22.359874+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/the-engineering-leadership-podcast-743839"},"episode":{"title":"Specs as the new source of truth, synthetic data as the next wave of defensibility, product vision & decision making frameworks w/ Ruslan Belkin #237","slug":"specs-as-the-new-source-of-truth-synthetic-data-as-the-next-wave-of-defensibility-product-vision-decision-making-frameworks-w-ruslan-belkin-237","published_at":"2025-11-20T15:21:40+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/the-engineering-leadership-podcast-743839/specs-as-the-new-source-of-truth-synthetic-data-as-the-next-wave-of-defensibility-product-vision-decision-making-frameworks-w-ruslan-belkin-237","show_page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/the-engineering-leadership-podcast-743839","url":"https://sfelc.com/podcasts","audio_url":"https://pscrb.fm/rss/p/afp-942744-injected.calisto.simplecastaudio.com/4d87e711-78c0-43f3-9633-fa05520e07f2/episodes/f2954920-8e13-45d4-bfef-3f203b36554a/audio/128/default.mp3?aid=rss_feed&awCollectionId=4d87e711-78c0-43f3-9633-fa05520e07f2&awEpisodeId=f2954920-8e13-45d4-bfef-3f203b36554a&feed=Z8Dl_qAv","summary":"Ruslan Belkin (Head of Platform Engineering @ Inflection AI) joins us to deconstruct fundamental shifts in engineering leadership. We explore the future of user interfaces, his “sci-fi” approach to establish & test product vision, & how to leverage “investor decks” for better decision-making and project validation. Ruslan also dives into the complexities of building emotional intelligence into AI systems, cultivating an outcome-oriented engineering culture & avoiding process traps. Plus, we discuss how to keep up with the velocity of change (including when new research necessitates a major pivot), synthetic data & the future of data as a defensibility strategy, & why agent reliability is the massive opportunity ahead.","meta_description":"Ruslan Belkin (Head of Platform Engineering @ Inflection AI) joins us to deconstruct fundamental shifts in engineering leadership. We explore the future o…","key_points":[],"chapters":[],"topics":[],"duration_seconds":3114,"processing_state":"not_requested","actions":[{"name":"request_transcript","method":"POST","url":"https://stenobird.com/v1/public/podcasts/the-engineering-leadership-podcast-743839/episodes/specs-as-the-new-source-of-truth-synthetic-data-as-the-next-wave-of-defensibility-product-vision-decision-making-frameworks-w-ruslan-belkin-237/transcription-requests","description":"Idempotently request low-priority transcript generation for this episode."},{"name":"read_markdown","method":"GET","url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/the-engineering-leadership-podcast-743839/specs-as-the-new-source-of-truth-synthetic-data-as-the-next-wave-of-defensibility-product-vision-decision-making-frameworks-w-ruslan-belkin-237.md","description":"Read the agent-friendly Markdown representation of this episode resource."}]}}