We're hiring engineers because of the edge AI gives us
We Are Hiring Engineers Because of AI, Not Despite It: Inside Picnic’s AI TransformationWhat changed when a tech scale-up with 400 developers started rebuilding its workflows around AIAndrew StetsenkoSep 29, 202682ShareLast year, we published a detailed introduction to Picnic on The Global Move. We’re hiring because of the edge AI gives us.TL;DRThis article is about what happens to software engineers when writing code is no longer the main constraint.At Picnic, AI already helps engineers write and review code, prototype ideas and run more experiments. But one of the interesting things they learned is that producing more code and making more releases doesn’t necessarily create more value.
- ▪We Are Hiring Engineers Because of AI, Not Despite It: Inside Picnic’s AI TransformationWhat changed when a tech scale-up with 400 developers started rebuilding its workflows around AIAndrew StetsenkoSep 29, 202682ShareLast year, we publish
- ▪We’re hiring because of the edge AI gives us.TL;DRThis article is about what happens to software engineers when writing code is no longer the main constraint.At Picnic, AI already helps engineers write and review code, prototype ideas and r
- ▪But one of the interesting things they learned is that producing more code and making more releases doesn’t necessarily create more value.
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We Are Hiring Engineers Because of AI, Not Despite It: Inside Picnic’s AI TransformationWhat changed when a tech scale-up with 400 developers started rebuilding its workflows around AIAndrew StetsenkoSep 29, 202682ShareLast year, we published a detailed introduction to Picnic on The Global Move. Picnic is one of Europe’s largest online supermarkets, operating across multiple European markets with an engineering organization of around 400 people working across software, data, ML, robotics and supply-chain technology.This time, I talked with Picnic CTO Daniel Gebler about how AI is changing engineering inside the company, where the bottlenecks are moving, and what this means for the engineers Picnic wants to hire.When I asked Daniel why Picnic is still hiring engineers while AI is making…
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