{"type":"rich","version":"1.0","provider_name":"Transistor","provider_url":"https://transistor.fm","author_name":"The Hallway Track","title":"Your Job Was Never to Write Software ","html":"<iframe width=\"100%\" height=\"180\" frameborder=\"no\" scrolling=\"no\" seamless src=\"https://share.transistor.fm/e/b3db925f\"></iframe>","width":"100%","height":180,"duration":2210,"description":"Your job was never to write software.\n\nMatt Brown, CTO at Opendate, has spent his career moving between 50-person startups and orgs the size of Salesforce, and what he's learned is that engineering value has always lived somewhere other than the code itself. AI just made that impossible to ignore.\nIn this episode, Matt and Chris get into how influence and political capital work in inverse proportion to headcount, why constraints make engineers better rather than more limited, and what the job actually becomes once the machine is writing the code.\nHighlights\n(00:00) AI opinions change every two weeks\n(01:06) Matt Brown's career: 50-person startup to Salesforce\n(03:52) Why influence shrinks as org size grows\n(09:28) The real cost of AI tooling\n(12:09) How business model shapes engineering decisions\n(15:31) Context vs. constraints: humans vs. AI\n(17:32) Nice to have is a must-have\n(26:33) Your job was never to write software\n(28:56) The junior engineer pipeline problem\n(33:39) Shifting quality left\n(34:41) The future of engineering jobs isn't shrinking, it's changing\nConnect with Matt Brown on LinkedIn\nConnect with Chris on LinkedIn\nCheck out Axiomatic on LinkedIn","thumbnail_url":"https://img.transistorcdn.com/2F_CmgeID0CZhB10IuaswbH9bRxmKBT4XVxlmySZo4c/rs:fill:0:0:1/w:400/h:400/q:60/mb:500000/aHR0cHM6Ly9pbWct/dXBsb2FkLXByb2R1/Y3Rpb24udHJhbnNp/c3Rvci5mbS81NTli/NmUzMTYzNWEyYmM3/NTVkODJkODk4MjE3/ZTI0ZS5wbmc.webp","thumbnail_width":300,"thumbnail_height":300}