If your team isn’t experimenting with AI, you’re preparing them to be replaced
Geoffrey Huntley ● Covered by 3 sources
Opinion — commentary, not a factual news event.
Software engineers are being told that using AI for work is now mandatory and that managers must help their teams experiment or risk losing them to AI-fluent competitors. The advice cites building a basic coding agent as “300 lines of code” running in a loop with LLM tokens. As a result, teams are encouraged to carve out time for AI skill-building, rank staff by AI fluency, and adjust hiring and performance expectations around demonstrable agent-building experience.
Why it matters
The issue warns that not learning to use AI is detrimental to careers, because the employment market’s preferences have shifted. It claims teams not using AI will be replaced by workers who do, and that investing in yourself makes the job market easier.
