---
title: "How Braze’s CTO is rethinking engineering for the agentic area"
url: https://daily.dev/posts/how-braze-s-cto-is-rethinking-engineering-for-the-agentic-area-c0lelj2m1
source_url: https://stackoverflow.blog/2026/05/13/rethinking-engineering-for-the-agentic-area
type: article
source: "Stack Overflow Blog"
published: 2026-05-13T04:03:06.471Z
updated: 2026-05-13T04:03:31.606Z
tags: ["leadership", "ai-coding", "claude-code", "agentic-ai"]
reading_time: 45
upvotes: 0
comments: 0
language: en
---

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# How Braze’s CTO is rethinking engineering for the agentic area

**[Stack Overflow Blog](https://daily.dev/sources/stackov)** · 45 min read · 0 upvotes · 0 comments

## Summary

Braze CTO Jon Hyman shares how the company transformed its 300-person engineering org into an AI-first team over roughly three months. Key milestones included early adoption of Claude Code (which he credits as a game-changer), shipping an MCP server six weeks ahead of schedule using only AI, and reaching a point where over 60% of committed code is AI-generated. Hyman discusses the cultural challenges of driving adoption, noting that improved model quality — not mandates — won over skeptics. He also addresses the steep and often underestimated cost of LLM inference at scale (one engineer spending $150/day in tokens), why 'vibe coding your way to scale' is naive, and how autonomous agents building features overnight is the near-term future. He argues AI is inducing demand for more software rather than reducing headcount needs.

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