Former Google CEO Eric Schmidt to programmers: Stop building the house. Start designing it.
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Schmidt’s point that AI coding tools already exceed his own skills is another data point that individual contributor leverage is shifting from typing code to setting architecture and constraints. For engineering leaders, hiring and promotion criteria that still overweight raw implementation speed are going to misprice the people who can actually steer AI-augmented teams.
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