In this episode of Event Advice, CEO Matt Allen and CPO Will Custard have the conversation that most product and tech leaders are having quietly behind closed doors — about the gap between AI’s promise and its current reality, the genuine anxiety sitting inside engineering teams, and the harder question of what happens when craft gets replaced by efficiency.
From the carpenter analogy to big tech layoffs, burning through token budgets, and whether the 20/80 rule is about to become the 2/80 rule — this is an honest, unfiltered take on where AI actually stands right now for a growing software business.
No hype. No fear-mongering. Just two people trying to figure it out.
What you’ll take away:
- Why 86% AI-generated code isn’t delivering the speed gains you’d expect and what that means
- How to guide an engineering team through a period of genuine uncertainty without losing your best people
- The real cost of AI at scale and why some of the world’s biggest companies are already burning through their budgets
- Why the shift from “craft” to “management” is the hardest cultural change in software right now
- Whether event tech platforms hold an advantage as businesses try (and struggle) to build in-house with AI
