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From Velocity Sickness: What Happens When Your Whole Team Gets 10x Faster — Matt Dailey, Ref. · ≈7:30
“Our work looks a lot more like this.”
“This is a very different shape of work.”
“We're no longer doing this like heads down building.”
“This is where we like express our craft as an engineer.”
“I think the the shape of engineering teams and product teams is changing with AI.”
What’s in it
- Reframes engineering work into three stages: plan, agent-build, polish
- Argues planning—not coding—is now where engineers show creative judgment
- Explores how AI agents are reshaping the shape of engineering teams
Clip transcript
Um so, let's look at how how we work now. Our work looks a lot more like this. Where you do some planning up front. You start thinking about what am I trying to do here? You take this idea in your head and start to flesh it out. Um At some point an agent takes that idea and like implements it. This is like arguably should not even be on this slide cuz it's not our human work anymore. It's done by the agent. Um and then in the end we do some polishing where we take back that thing the agent has made for us and we like hold it in our hands and we say, is this is this what I wanted? Um This is a very different shape of work. Right? We're no longer doing this like heads down building. These are the two uh creative and collaborative parts of our work as engineers. This is where we like express our craft as an engineer. And the one that's most different is the the planning stage. So, I want to zoom in on that just a little bit. Uh that's the like exploratory, creative, collaborative part where we're we're thinking about like I have this vague idea. I have this complex system. I need to understand the contours of this system, apply this idea, and like really understand it. And I need to pull out what's relevant and express my taste as an engineer. As to like, where do I want this system to go? Um This is the kind of work that uh that's creative and and needs to be done together. I think the the shape of engineering teams and product teams is changing with AI. But we're always going to have this thing where we have a group of people responsible for managing a complex system and it's sort of deciding the future of that system. And that's this planning work. And so, we're we're starting to see some of the hints
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