The 'AI software engineer' was never a stable equilibrium — the endgame is automating whole teams
andreisavu · x · 2026-11-10
andreisavu's take on where AI coding tools are headed: the 'AI software engineer' as a single-agent product was never going to be a stable equilibrium. The trajectory was always toward automating the work of an entire engineering team — planning, building, testing, deploying, and operating software together — and soon after that, a good chunk of the organization built around it. A deliberately more aggressive mid-term prediction than the current 'AI augments individual engineers' narrative.
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