--- 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 --- > ## Documentation Index > Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://daily.dev/llms.txt > Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further. # Agentic AI has changed my career **[Tech Lead Digest](https://daily.dev/sources/techleaddigest)** · 12 min read · 51 upvotes · 6 comments ## Summary 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. ## Full article daily.dev links to this article rather than hosting it. Read it at the original source: ## Community discussion Top comments from developers on daily.dev. **@jleme** · 8 upvotes > I hope, for the company's sake, this is just a work of fiction… **@jamiecarl** · 5 upvotes > Time to short some Skydio stocks. **@barion** · 4 upvotes > that sounds like it’s going to explode **@cris\_towi** · 3 upvotes > Are they really pushing 10 PRs per hour? Who can even review all that? Unless AI does that too, in that case this looks like the recipe of disaster. **@vikyw** · 1 upvotes > I feel bad for the developers there ## Similar posts on daily.dev - [Agentic AI in Software Development: From Coding to Orchestration](https://daily.dev/posts/agentic-ai-in-software-development-from-coding-to-orchestration-bl6akhr3q) · Syncfusion · 1 upvotes · 0 comments --- Tags: [#agentic-ai](https://daily.dev/tags/agentic-ai), [#ai](https://daily.dev/tags/ai), [#productivity](https://daily.dev/tags/productivity), [#windsurf](https://daily.dev/tags/windsurf) [View this post on daily.dev](https://daily.dev/posts/agentic-ai-has-changed-my-career-cdv7zgruq) ```json {"@context":"https://schema.org","@graph":[{"@type":"Organization","@id":"https://daily.dev/#organization","name":"daily.dev","url":"https://daily.dev","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://daily.dev/apple-touch-icon.png","width":180,"height":180},"sameAs":["https://twitter.com/dailydotdev","https://github.com/dailydotdev","https://www.linkedin.com/company/daily-dev-ltd"]},{"@type":"WebSite","@id":"https://daily.dev/#website","url":"https://daily.dev","name":"daily.dev","publisher":{"@id":"https://daily.dev/#organization"},"potentialAction":{"@type":"SearchAction","target":{"@type":"EntryPoint","urlTemplate":"https://daily.dev/search?q={search_term_string}"},"query-input":"required name=search_term_string"}}]} {"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"TechArticle","headline":"Agentic AI has changed my career","url":"https://daily.dev/posts/agentic-ai-has-changed-my-career-cdv7zgruq","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://daily.dev/posts/agentic-ai-has-changed-my-career-cdv7zgruq"},"datePublished":"2025-09-14T18:36:08.351Z","dateModified":"2026-03-30T02:14:18.000Z","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. 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