What 6 months of AI coding did to my dev team
If you're building software in your business - running a dev team, hiring developers, or vibe-coding with Lovable, Bolt or Cursor - the ground under you has already shifted. Most founders are hiring for the wrong skills and do not realise it yet.
I'm running a 20-person dev team building We UC, our unified communications platform. Over the last six months, the bottleneck in software development has moved. It is not where it used to be. And what I'm seeing in my own team matches what the biggest companies in tech are discovering right now.
This is a short tour of how software used to be built, how it is built now, and how it will be built over the next few years - from someone doing it day-to-day.
What you will learn:
Where the real engineering work migrated (hint: it is no longer the code itself)
Why your senior engineers are drowning while your juniors are thriving
The danger zone for mid-level developers that nobody is talking about
Why "self-healing AI systems" will crash your business at 2am
What to actually look for when hiring developers in 2026
Why the specification is now the product, and the code is disposable
If you run a software team, if you are a business owner, CEO, CTO, or are quietly building software in your business with AI tools, this is the video to watch before you make your next hire or bet on your next tooling decision.
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Chapters:
0:00 - If you build software, this is for you
0:23 - How software development used to work
0:59 - The question that broke everything
2:29 - Where the work actually went
4:31 - The supervisory layer nobody named
6:38 - What breaks at 2am (the tribal knowledge problem)
9:19 - The shift you need to see coming