Organizations like Anthropic claimed 70-90% of their code was written by AI early this year. This aligns with my own experience building an AI startup and what I hear from engineers around me.
As coding agents get better, writing code itself is becoming a smaller part of software engineering. So what happens when AI eventually writes nearly all of it? What still makes someone a great engineer?
In this talk, I’ll look at this question from both sides: what engineers should become better at, and what companies should look for when hiring them. I’ll share observations from building with AI coding tools, hiring engineers, and advising founders on technical hiring—and discuss which engineering skills are becoming more valuable, which may matter less, and how technical hiring needs to evolve.
