The Trust Threshold: Senior Engineers Are Already Crossing It
For the past year, the debate around AI coding tools has focused on capability. The models aren't the bottleneck anymore. Trust is. Specifically, the trust of Senior, Principal, and Staff engineers, the people who set standards, run reviews, and decide what ships. That trust is no longer theoretical. At Spotify, Anthropic, and OpenAI, senior engineers have stopped writing code and started supervising it. Here's what actually tipped the threshold, and what it means for everyone building software right now.