Box CEO Aaron Levie: AI Has Widened the Engineer Gap to at Least 100x
2C_ornot2C · x · 2026-11-08
Quoting theo's claim that AI has widened the gap between average and top engineers from 10x to at least 100x, Box CEO Aaron Levie argues it's realistic: with the right harness, deep domain knowledge, a fresh codebase, fluency in running multiple agents, and frictionless test/deploy setups, order-of-magnitude productivity gains are showing up. Counterintuitively, the gap isn't converging — deeper prior expertise compounds as models take on bigger problems.
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