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Andrew Hsu is a cofounder at Speak, a growth-stage AI-native startup. They're building an AI language tutor using the power of AI and speech recognition models. The whole company is about 150 people, and they have about 60 engineers. Coding agents weren't viewed as a central tool for actual software engineering teams until early December of last year, Hsu said. At that point, the models became good enough that 80% of the coding work software engineers had to do could be handled by an agent. Their day-to-day changed from writing code to primarily communicating through coding agents. "Over the past three months, the rate of change has been unbelievable, and the fundamental job of software engineers has totally changed," he said. Read about how the company is rethinking how they hire to keep up with the evolving industry on Business Insider: https://lnkd.in/e2pwSsfC (Credit: ComePlum) #softwareengineering #AI #techstartup #futureofwork #codingagents