YTL AI Labs CEO: Headcount Unchanged After AI-Generated Coding, Judgment Beats Typing
cen6wkf · reddit · 2026-09-25
Foong Chee Mun, CEO of YTL AI Labs and CPO of Ryt Bank, pushes back on the 'AI is coming for engineers' panic using his own hiring numbers.
- After moving from AI-assisted to AI-generated coding, his engineer headcount stayed the same — someone still has to judge whether the AI's output is actually correct, which is judgment, not typing.
- Engineering leaders elsewhere are on record hiring for judgment and systems thinking over raw coding speed.
The post then sketches a startup idea: an individual-first, anonymous tool that tracks how much of your week goes to catching AI mistakes, paired with peer-benchmarked pay comparison — building trust one engineer at a time, salary-transparency-site style, before ever approaching employers. It includes a staged roadmap and three testable assumptions.
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