AI’s impact on Engineering leverage
I’m just curious if anyone has experienced this feeling that engineering leverage is getting less.
For instance, we were raised to discuss tradeoffs with Product when reviewing scope. Most of the time, we try to help prioritize impactful work.
Usually this means we descope bells and whistles. In the past, Product would just have to take our word for it base on our estimates because the “engineers” are doing the work.
Now with AI, technically “anyone“ can code now. Coding well can be debatable, but that’s not the point. The point is that the barrier is much less than it’s ever been. This is what I mean by leverage getting less.
I’m just curious if anyone has ever experienced something like this lately where negotiation power as an EM has been impacted. Any examples? Any tips to adapt to the changes?