AI and a reported 10X widening of Grepr’s engineer skill gap

In a conversation shared by a16z, Grepr founder Jad Naous said the gap between okay and great engineers on his team “multiplied 10X” as the company hired and some engineers adapted to AI more readily than others. He said engineers still need to understand the distributed systems they build because AI cannot reason through his team’s problems. a16z says a data lake feature that once took an engineer about six months took Naous 10 days.