Anyone at companies with later stage AI adoption able to chime in? Ive long optimistically felt that software engineering should become more in demand with ai, but also having less of a barrier to entry as this unfolds. Now though, as I see the differences in speed improvements thay different developers on different projects get, im not so sure. I can see that non agentic engineers will get dragged whether they like it or not into the agentic world. But then even so, the large business i work in just has too much complexity. I imagine that actually have to reduce the amount of developers in cases just because more would just cause change more rapid than the company can handle. I see some projects that would have taken 12 developers 10 months to complete now looking possible to complete in a couple of months for one team, but on the other hand, some projects that could perhaps be completed just twice as fast, but with a smaller team, just because of all the dependencies and coordination required. Maybe that is the problem that will get resolved, but I don’t see it happening soon. Senior stakeholders are generally still in the cautiously optimistic camp with many still pessimistic. So yeah, to reiterate, curious how others who’ve had a head start have seen this play out. submitted by /u/corporal_clegg69
Originally posted by u/corporal_clegg69 on r/ClaudeCode