“We had a project that we were going to launch earlier this year, tabular review. We had it scoped to have two to three teams working on it for three quarters … it was going to take us 12 months. We delivered that thing in three months with one team of engineers, and it is significantly more advanced than it otherwise would have been. … We're growing our engineering team and most people are being like, no, you don't need to grow your engineering team, just get more efficient.”
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Asked what worries him about the next five years, the NetDocuments CEO says AI coding tools have sped up his team dramatically. He says the company is hiring more engineers because of that speed-up, not fewer.
I mean, the reality is, like, if you think back to January of this year and we had the whole SaaS apocalypse moment, I would say that every software CEO on the planet was feeling a little bit bipolar in that moment.
Yeah.
…review. We had it scoped to have, have two to three teams working on it for three quarters, then all the processes to actually like get it production ready, et cetera, was going to take us 12 months. We delivered that thing in three months with one team of engineers, and it is significantly more advanced than it otherwise would have been. This is a moment where we're able to take, you know, like we're growing our engineering team and most people are being like, no, you don't need to grow your engineering team, just get more efficient. Like we're growing our engineering team and every engineer is producing more, better quality, more adoptable product than ever before. I've never been more excited. Like this is a moment where we can deliver value to our customers in ways that we like we've always been able to dream of, but like we couldn't produce it fast enough. Yeah. But now we're going to be able to.
Yeah. And is every engineer using code or using Cloud Code? Every engineer
in our organization. Yeah. Like I was. I think you said
earlier, you deployed cloud to everybody in the organization also.