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If bugs slip through it’s a process failure, same as it ever was. So everyone associated with the process is at fault. From the ceo on down.
Yeah sure, have you been in incidents costing millions of dollars because CEO pushed something to deliver fast and same CEO sitting on incident meeting and shouting to everyone why can't they fix this dumb incident?
* if fully automated agentic delivery was pushed by C-levels to save eng cost - they must be responsible
* if code was written with AI assisted tools, then engineer is responsible
* if engineering manager and PMs pushed hard to release the feature with cutting too much scope, then they should be responsible.
BUT we don't live in ideal world, so here is what would happen (timeline):
* incident started, and getting too costly
* CTO, then eventually CEO joins the incident meeting and starts teaching people how to handle incidents
* incident will cost some money (or multiple of them), post mortem will contain non-sense to hide issues, because they can't blame C-level for pushing their shiny automated JIRA ticket closer agent
* CEO announces layoffs, says sorry, takes all the responsibility for this issue, but kicks off 40% of the team
* We are hiring...
If bugs slip through it’s a process failure, same as it ever was. So everyone associated with the process is at fault. From the ceo on down.
> From the ceo on ... Yeah sure, have you been in incidents costing millions of dollars because CEO pushed something to deliver fast and same CEO sitting on incident meeting and shouting to everyone why can't they fix this dumb incident?