4h ago

AI Coding Advances Force Organizations To Rebuild Software Engineering Practices

——0——
Original post
OPEthan Mollick#175Ethan Mollick@EMOLLICK

Reconstructing software engineering around AI is going to take work (even as the ability of AI to code increases at a rapid rate). Organizations are ideally spending tokens for two things: 1) building stuff 2) experiments to figure out best practices (which involves failure)

6:48 AM · May 29, 2026 View on X
REPLYEthan Mollick#175Ethan Mollick@EMOLLICK

The hand-wringing over token usage is real, but I don’t see any organization that has adopted AI retreating from use in coding or even considering it. We are a few months into agentic coding, and companies are trying to experiment with approaches to balance adoption & efficiency

Ethan MollickEthan Mollick@emollick

Reconstructing software engineering around AI is going to take work (even as the ability of AI to code increases at a rapid rate). Organizations are ideally spending tokens for two things: 1) building stuff 2) experiments to figure out best practices (which involves failure)

1:48 PM · May 29, 2026 · 9.5K Views
1:57 PM · May 29, 2026 · 5K Views