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If AI Coding Tools Reduce the Number of Engineers We Need, Where Do We Spend Our Budgets?

The Impact of AI on Product Engineering teams — Part 4

This is the fourth part of a six part series investigating how generative AI productivity tools aimed at developers, like Github Copilot, ChatGPT and Amazon CodeWhisperer might impact the structure of entire product engineering teams.

In Part 3, we explored:

1. How Generative AI tools could potentially upend the longstanding ratio of 5 engineers to 1 product manager.
2. How tools like Github Copilot and AWS Amplify Studio could reshape product development, shifting the engineer’s focus from hand coding to design, architecture, and integration.
3. How Generative AI tools can assist teams who are facing painfully outdated tech, handling complex porting and refactoring effortlessly.
4. The possible unifying influence of AI tools on mobile and web app development, reducing duplicated efforts and bridging the skill gaps between web, Android, and iOS development.
5. The impact of coding automation on junior developers and engineering progression

What will our new organisations look like?