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While leadership sets strategy and teams run experiments, staff+ engineers are uniquely positioned to translate ambition into scalable, sustainable outcomes.
Software development has undergone several major shifts in recent years: first with web applications, then cloud computing, DevOps, and mobile-first development. Each of these improvements changed how teams operate.
Most organizations are still in the early stages of AI adoption, often experimenting with projects. However, implementing a tool does not create transformational change.
History has seen this before. During the early adoption of electricity, factory leaders initially replaced steam engines with electric motors, expecting immediate productivity gains.
