CTO says an engineer automated 60% of his job with an AI agent and got promoted
sloppenheimer · x · 2026-08-04
A CTO says one engineer automated about 60% of his own work last quarter with an AI agent.
- The engineer built an agent that handles most of his tickets and worried it made him look unnecessary.
- The CTO says he was promoted instead: he now orchestrates an “armada of agents” instead of doing repetitive work himself.
- The company kept his salary the same while giving him back the saved time, arguing that people who create 10x more value should also benefit from the automation.
- The post frames AI as a way to remove boring work, raise leverage, and give employees more control over how they use the time they save.
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