--- title: Becoming an AI Team | daily.dev description: Pinterest Engineering's Storage Foundations leadership describes how AI tools are reshaping engineering teams, arguing that becoming an 'AI team' requires... canonical: https://daily.dev/posts/becoming-an-ai-team-2jncrwh8w twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:site: @dailydotdev og:type: website og:site_name: daily.dev og:title: Becoming an AI Team | daily.dev og:description: Pinterest Engineering's Storage Foundations leadership describes how AI tools are reshaping engineering teams, arguing that becoming an 'AI team' requires... og:url: https://daily.dev/posts/becoming-an-ai-team-2jncrwh8w og:image: https://api.daily.dev/og/posts/2JnCrWh8W.png og:image:alt: Becoming an AI Team 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. # Becoming an AI Team **[Pinterest Engineering](https://daily.dev/sources/pint)** · 12 min read · 0 upvotes · 0 comments ## Summary Pinterest Engineering's Storage Foundations leadership describes how AI tools are reshaping engineering teams, arguing that becoming an 'AI team' requires restructuring roles, priorities, and management practices rather than simply adding AI tools to existing workflows. Managers shift from process enforcement to strategic vision-setting and mentorship, while individual contributors move from manual execution to orchestrating AI agents. Concrete examples include AI agents that triage database issues, draft remediation commands, and enable large-scale refactors on storage platforms in days rather than quarters. The piece frames a 'capacity and commitments' model showing incremental efficiency gains (roughly 20%) from early AI adoption, and stresses that teams need a capacity surplus and psychological safety to fully realize AI's benefits. ## Full article daily.dev links to this article rather than hosting it. 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