As a CTO I can say that this is not my experience.
My experience these days is fighting corporate bureaucracy and inertia to make sure we reap the benefits of faster coding. Feeding agents with work is not a problem. Building teams that use those tools effectively is the problem. (Say, shall we merge product and engineering teams? Do we start getting rid of people who refuse to use AI? What do we do with pentests? How do we strengthen the tools that do code analysis and weed out lazy devs who can now more easily pretend to be invested in their work? Stuff like this keeps me busy.
As a CTO this has been my experience as well. I would add in every non-technical C-suite member aiming to use AI as some magic lever to avoid prioritizing projects or engaging in real critical thinking. Too many people are offloading their cognitive decisionmaking to some magic box, thinking it has all the answers, because its output appears magical and complete.
After 25 years in programming I think I’ll finally start that farm ;)
> Do we start getting rid of people who refuse to use AI?
I don't even think the bigger companies are going to waste time on figuring out how to retrain, they're just going to do industrial scale layoffs and then rebuild from the ground up with people who won't get past interviews without demonstrating hard skills in this area.
There is a shocking gap growing right now, it's a Wile E. Coyote not realizing he already walked off the cliff type of situation for a lot of people.
Ultimately the shareholders want to see the money. They dont give a crap about what you think or what the poster above thinks - you're both accountable to the shareholders who do not employ you for fun. They employ you for the sole purpose of making them wealthier. All this incremental spend on tokens shows up in the financials positively or it doesn't.
> Ultimately the shareholders want to see the money.
Seems like we're saying the same thing?
> All this incremental spend on tokens shows up in the financials positively or it doesn't.
Right, and we're talking about the staff failing to spend the incremental tokens at all, thus failing to discover whether or not they'll show up positively. I'm just saying, investors are probably going to decide to roll the dice on a complete staffing rebuild rather than try to wait for the existing corporate culture to adapt because they're going to get fomo. Arguably it's already happening.
It's an absolute tornado of PRs these days. Everyone making the most of these tools is effectively an engineering team lead.