“Engineers are becoming sorcerers” | The future of software development with OpenAI’s Sherwin Wu
The role of software engineers is rapidly evolving into that of AI agents' managers, with AI now writing and reviewing nearly all code at OpenAI, enabling a future of one-person billion-dollar startups and a potential golden age of B2B SaaS.
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