Hi, I’m Bob Matsuoka. I’m the CTO of Duetto, and I write HyperDev, a newsletter for engineers building with AI.
This is the second of two parts. The first one went up on September tenth, and it covered the afternoon itself and the six names the industry now uses for the same job. This episode isn’t a reading of the second part. It’s me working through the question that part is built on, and the parts of it I’m still thinking about.
Nobody in that room is named. That was the condition of the conversation, and it holds here. When I quote someone, you’re hearing their words in my voice.
The question goes like this. Nearly all of my engineers use AI in some form. About one in five use it at anything close to the depth the work allows. And I’m not only the CTO, I’m a hands-on practitioner inside my own company, which is supposed to be the thing that closes a gap like that. It hasn’t, at least not to the degree we need.
If you lead engineers and you’ve already bought the tools, that gap is the expensive part.
