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"Engineers will be the ones automating marketing, life sciences research, taxes, accounting, and payroll—because you're going to use coding agents to wire up the workflows of those processes," Box cofounder and CEO Aaron Levie argues in this excerpt from AI Codecon. His reasoning: There are only tens of millions of software developers worldwide, and most work at big tech companies because smaller organizations can't justify the headcount a software project requires. Coding agents lower that barrier. More projects get greenlit, more engineers get hired to run them, and their scope expands well beyond the software team. Tune in for a more optimistic take on AI and developer jobs than you're probably used to hearing. #shorts
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"Engineers will be the ones automating marketing, life sciences research, taxes, accounting, and payroll—because you're going to use coding agents to wire up the workflows of those processes," Box cofounder and CEO Aaron Levie argues in this excerpt from AI Codecon. His reasoning: There are only tens of millions of software developers worldwide, and most work at big tech companies because smaller organizations can't justify the headcount a software project requires. Coding agents lower that barrier. More projects get greenlit, more engineers get hired to run them, and their scope expands well beyond the software team. Tune in for a more optimistic take on AI and developer jobs than you're probably used to hearing. #shorts
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