Databricks engineers land impactful PRs on day 2 with AI dev tools, vs week 3 before
Yuchenj_UW · x · 2026-10-16
The author observes strong engineers joining Databricks getting access to all AI dev tools, asking AI everything on day 1, and landing impactful PRs on day 2.
Before AI: two weeks with an onboarding buddy reading design docs and the codebase, just to land a tiny patch in week 3. AI tools are dramatically cutting engineering onboarding cost.
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