Nicholas Bouchard / Chief Technology Officer
Perspectives from a life in leadership.
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AI coding assistants make some engineering work measurably faster, but the saving arrives at the keyboard and the cost arrives in the review queue. Boards that book the first without planning for the second will buy defects with the headcount they think they have saved.
Read the essayAI coding assistants make some engineering work measurably faster, but the saving arrives at the keyboard and the cost arrives in the review queue. Boards that book the first without planning for the second will buy defects with the headcount they think they have saved.
An engine vendor's most consequential attack surface is not the code it writes but the machinery that compiles, signs and ships it. Boards should ask about isolated, reproducible and signed builds before they ask how many vulnerabilities a scanner found.
Software companies with growing GPU workloads tend to rent every hour from the cloud. Once demand has a floor that never moves, renting all of it is the expensive choice, but owning pays only if the floor is measured honestly and the hidden costs of hardware are counted.