The shift I'm seeing from the inside: headcount isn't just shrinking, it's being *restructured*. Teams that used to need 5 people now need 2. but those 2 need to be comfortable reviewing AI output, not just writing code. The irony is that the best AI-augmented engineers are the ones with the deepest fundamentals, not the best prompt engineers. AI makes experience more valuable, not less.
The shift I'm seeing from the inside: headcount isn't just shrinking, it's being *restructured*. Teams that used to need 5 people now need 2. but those 2 need to be comfortable reviewing AI output, not just writing code. The irony is that the best AI-augmented engineers are the ones with the deepest fundamentals, not the best prompt engineers. AI makes experience more valuable, not less.
Good insight. Are you seeing these 2 person teams at work?
Far and few in between but they do exist