A senior leader asked me a simple question last week. What happens to the talent pyramid? I wanted to answer with a drawing. A diamond, an hourglass, a column. Every one of them assumed I already knew something I did not. So I went back to what the pyramid was for. It was never justContinue reading “The Talent Pyramid Was Never Just a Shape !”
Author Archives: Vijay Vijayasankar
The Corner Case: What Happens After AI Does the Easy Work?
Most conversations about AI transformation ask whether the technology can do the work. We debate accuracy, cost, reliability and how quickly companies can move from pilots to production. I expect the technology to keep improving. I’ve become more interested in what happens when the answer is yes. In Migrating Scarcity, I argued that when technologyContinue reading “The Corner Case: What Happens After AI Does the Easy Work?”
AI Won’t Kill the SDLC. It Will Reprice It.
Everyone seems to agree on the same story: agents write the code, and the tools we already use stick around. Jira orchestrates the agents, GitHub verifies their work, Terraform enforces policy. I buy the first half. The second half assumes that because a function survives, the vendor performing it keeps getting paid. That doesn’t follow.Continue reading “AI Won’t Kill the SDLC. It Will Reprice It.”
