Sashank Gondala on How to Build an AI-Native Engineering Organization

Sashank Gondala of FurtherAI shares lessons from building an AI-native engineering organization over the past nine months: since January, the volume of code changes merged per engineer per day has grown about 5x, the rollback rate has stayed below 0.5%, and up to one-third of changes can be merged without human involvement. He also notes that the new bottleneck is planning and review, which now account for 70% of feature delivery time, and argues for giving engineers more end-to-end ownership rather than adding management layers.