It's a rather useful tool... and it absolutely has been overhyped repeatedly and sold as a panacea.

If you believe AI will 10x you're developers you've drunk the kool-aid, if you believe AI will have no impact on your developers then you're being stubbornly ignorant.

What we're seeing is that AI is enabling us to reduce product headcount, but increase the scope of ownership for teams. We used to require each product keep at least 3 people on it to ensure that knowledge doesn't get lost with a departure, but now we're comfortable allowing an individual engineer drive it and allow AI to accelerate onboarding for a replacement when needed. This means that the teams can now handle 3x the products and our wish lists are getting shorter over time.

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