AI won’t empty the software factory: Why the new engineers act like foremen

AI is making software teams faster at producing code, but the article argues that the real bottlenecks now shift to review, rework, security, and ensuring software solves the right business problem. For CIOs, the strategic implication is that AI is more likely to expand demand for strong engineers than eliminate it, because organizations will need people who can translate AI-generated output into reliable business value and manage teams of AI agents like foremen. IT organizations should expect developer roles to evolve toward orchestration, context-setting, and governance rather than pure code production.