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The Context
AI coding assistants now generate over 40 percent of production code at leading tech firms, shifting engineering work from syntax to architecture. Cherny’s admission signals a tipping point: senior engineers are no longer writing code manually, even at companies building the tools themselves.
The Takeaway
CTOs hiring for 2026 should reposition engineering JDs around model orchestration and code review, not syntax fluency. The advantage belongs to teams that retrain senior engineers as AI workflow architects before competitors do.
Source: Fortune





