Industry Insights

Your Engineers Should Be Scared. That's Not a Bug.

AI is not just changing how engineering teams work. It is changing how many engineers companies believe they need. In PE-backed environments especially, the new pressure is structural: leaders are being pushed to define an AI-augmented performance bar, whether they admit it or not. The real problem is not that engineers are scared. It is that too many executives know the bar is moving and still refuse to say where.

Jacob Hartmann · March 16, 2026