AI-native graduates are increasingly valuable hires for companies, as they can improve organizational efficiency more effectively than traditional junior engineers. Box CEO Aaron Levie emphasizes that these graduates, taught with advanced AI tools, are better equipped to expedite tasks and drive innovation. He suggests that companies should prioritize hiring AI-fluent talent to remain competitive. As AI tools become integral to development workflows, Levie believes that dependency on these tools will redefine coding practices, making the next generation of engineers faster and more capable.
"Hire a bunch of these people," he said in a Monday interview on the a16z podcast, "because they're going to flip your company on its head in terms of how much faster the organization can run."
"If you're graduating, the thing I would be selling to any corporation some way or another is that if you're AI-native right now coming out of college, the amount you can teach at a company is unbelievable," Levie said.
"They will be able to show companies way faster ways of working," he said. "If you're a company, you should be prioritizing this talent that's just like: 'Why does it take you guys two weeks to research a market to enter? I can do that in deep research and get an answer to you in 30 minutes.'"
Levie said the newest generation of engineers will rely on them from day one. "The incoming class of engineers that you hire - they will literally not be able to code without AI assisting them," he said. "And it's not 100% obvious that's a bad thing."
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