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How AI changes engineering management

The rise of competent AI coding assistants could shift the role of software engineering managers considerably. Are you ready for that change?
August 10, 2023

The rise of competent AI coding assistants could shift the role of software engineering managers considerably. Are you ready for that change?

Generative AI-powered programming tools are here – and they’re already effective. Tools like ChatGPT and GitHub Copilot can write usable code to solve both trivial and complex problems, refactor or convert code between languages, create documentation, or explain the function of unknown code.

While these tools aren’t able to replace a junior developer yet, is it only a matter of time? And what can engineering managers do to stay ahead of things?

The genie is out of the bottle

In a sense, it’s already too late to get ahead of AI.

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