If you're reading this, you're probably an engineering manager, a VP of Engineering, a CTO, or someone who leads developers. You've heard the noise about AI coding tools. Maybe you've seen demos. Maybe some of your team is already using Copilot or Claude Code on the side.

Here's what you need to understand: this isn't coming. It already happened.

Between 2024 and 2026, the economics of software development changed fundamentally. Not in a "5% productivity boost" way. In a "the entire staffing model is wrong" way.