--- title: Agentic AI has changed my career | daily.dev description: A director at Skydio shares how AI-powered coding tools transformed him from a non-coding manager into one of the company's top contributors. Starting with... canonical: https://daily.dev/posts/agentic-ai-has-changed-my-career-cdv7zgruq twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:site: @dailydotdev og:type: website og:site_name: daily.dev og:title: Agentic AI has changed my career | daily.dev og:description: A director at Skydio shares how AI-powered coding tools transformed him from a non-coding manager into one of the company's top contributors. Starting with... og:url: https://daily.dev/posts/agentic-ai-has-changed-my-career-cdv7zgruq og:image: https://api.daily.dev/og/posts/CDV7ZGRUq.png og:image:alt: Agentic AI has changed my career og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 630 og:locale: en --- [Tech Lead Digest](https://daily.dev/sources/techleaddigest) [Read post](https://api.daily.dev/r/CDV7ZGRUq) # [Agentic AI has changed my career](https://api.daily.dev/r/CDV7ZGRUq "Go to post") This title could be clearer and more informative.Try out Clickbait Shieldfor free (5 uses left this month). A director at Skydio shares how AI-powered coding tools transformed him from a non-coding manager into one of the company's top contributors. Starting with basic AI-assisted coding at 0.5x speed, he progressed through multiple workspaces and context optimization to reach 10x productivity using agentic AI. The approach involves automated workflows, GitHub integrations, and browser automation that enable non-developers to contribute code changes directly to production systems. 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Who can even review all that? Unless AI does that too, in that case this looks like the recipe of disaster.","datePublished":"2025-09-30T14:45:42.331Z","url":"https://daily.dev/posts/CDV7ZGRUq#c-165yQri44","author":{"@type":"Person","name":"Christian Armando Consuelo Mayen","url":"https://daily.dev/cris_towi","image":"https://avatars.githubusercontent.com/u/3965731?v=4"},"interactionStatistic":{"@type":"InteractionCounter","interactionType":{"@type":"LikeAction"},"userInteractionCount":3}},{"@type":"Comment","text":"I feel bad for the developers there","datePublished":"2025-09-27T06:27:39.174Z","url":"https://daily.dev/posts/CDV7ZGRUq#c-XDad7Q65C","author":{"@type":"Person","name":"Viky","url":"https://daily.dev/vikyw","image":"https://avatars.githubusercontent.com/u/112059651?v=4"},"interactionStatistic":{"@type":"InteractionCounter","interactionType":{"@type":"LikeAction"},"userInteractionCount":1}}]} ```