Rich Ziade
Co-founder and CEO of Aboard, a software company, and a serial software entrepreneur who started his career in law.
“The posture of the employer is you are a commodity that has a value on a currency market and your currency value just got cut in half.”
The Aboard Podcast · AI Builders · November 2026
Context
A listener said leadership at his company ordered a 50% increase in daily pull requests to prove AI is boosting productivity. Rich Ziade says AI coding really is getting better, then describes what he sees as the employer's underlying attitude to engineers.
Transcript
And it will only get better. We just have to do it. And it will only get better.
So we're not going to sit
…is instead of typing all day and rummaging through bugs, let it make the first cut. That first cut's going to be excellent. Run your unit tests or however way you spot check it and read it. Read the change. I'm sure they're saying don't just push it through. Read the change and push it through. And that should make you 2X faster. I think what's unfortunate here is the posture of the employer. The posture of the employer is you are a commodity that has a value on a currency market and your currency value just got cut in half.
It's a crypto company.
That's fair. That's fair. I was trying to answer this without
that. No, you just described what it is. I mean,
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