I am a technical director in a non-tech, but high growth company. Our team of engineers is 15-20 people. We have so SO many more projects we'd like to do than what we have capacity for. It's hard to really do compress 2 weeks in 2 hours - our company is 10 years old, we're dealing with (some) legacy data, legacy systems, outside systems. We debug, trace, conceptualize problems, test them with people (often our own employees for which we write software). Agents can 10-100x small parts of this loop and have no effect on other parts. Am I worried? A bit. Does it impact my day-to-day work and do I see it having a severe impact in the very near future - not so much.
Right now, as advice to other people, I'd say: "just don't work in pure-software, SaaS companies where you can rewrite the app in a week with agents". Plenty of such work, many people don't consider it "stereotypically attractive". I love it.
Right now, as advice to other people, I'd say: "just don't work in pure-software, SaaS companies where you can rewrite the app in a week with agents". Plenty of such work, many people don't consider it "stereotypically attractive". I love it.