Snowflake Seeing Strong Return on AI Investment: CEO
THE SO WHAT
When a CEO says coders are producing work “24 hours a day” via AI agents, that’s a staffing and governance statement—your throughput is now bounded by review, not typing. If you don’t redesign code review, testing, and deployment for agentic output, you’re either leaving leverage on the table or compounding hidden tech debt.
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