"Anticipating this AI shift six months ago, we refocused our product and tech organization, shrinking from 63 to 43 people to operate more nimbly in this new environment. The team doubled its output in January and will double that again this month. We're doing exponentially more ... with dramatically fewer people. The big picture: In the tech world, especially in media, we were always constrained by what we call "technical debt" - the backlog of work any organization faces but never quite gets around to doing."
"Software engineers are living in a future that will soon arrive for all of us. Here's how the world has changed in just the past few weeks: 1. With tools like Claude Code and OpenAI's Codex, my team ships features in days instead of months. Agents now write better code than I can. Now I spend my time thinking about what we want to build - not how we want to build it."
AI coding tools have transformed software development by enabling features to ship in days rather than months and allowing fewer engineers to deliver exponentially more output. One organization reduced headcount from 63 to 43 to increase nimbleness and doubled output, on track to double again. Artificial intelligence has effectively neutralized accumulated technical debt and will clear year-long backlogs within months, freeing engineers to build beyond request lists. Development focus has shifted from writing code to deciding what to build. Contracts are shortening as teams expect near-zero-cost tooling, and the primary bottleneck has become human capacity to absorb rapid, continuous change.
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