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Episode 26 · AI
The 20% Truth: AI’s Real Impact on Developer Productivity
with Simon Obstbaum
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Everyone says AI will 10x your dev team. But what does the data actually say?
Simon Obstbaumis the former CTO of Crunchyroll and a Stanford researcher focused on software engineering productivity. At Crunchyroll, he led the engineering team through rapid subscriber and team growth while transitioning from a data center monolith to a microservice-based cloud architecture. He originally founded YOPESO in 2005, growing it to hundreds of engineers across the US, Europe, and Asia.