How to Build an AI-Native Engineering Team (Not an AI-Assisted One)

Most teams added AI tools and called it transformation. An AI-native engineering team requires two things most organizations are not willing to change: the staffing model and the governance model. Here is what both look like.

I am having the same conversation three or four times a week now. A director, a VP of Engineering, sometimes a CTO. My friends who are now leaders, and leaders who are now friends. The technology part of the conversation is over. They get it. They understand that AI agents change how software gets built, that team structures need to shrink, that the old model where headcount equals output is broken. They are not confused about the engineering side.