Senior Engineers Shift Toward AI Verification

Canva CTO Brendan Humphreys and Spotify CEO Gustav Söderström report senior engineers increasingly supervise internal AI agents instead of writing code, with some top developers not coding since December. Surveys and reports (Sonar: 96% distrust, 48% always verify; Anthropic: AI in ~60% of developer work, 0–20% fully delegated) show growing verification debt and technical-debt risks.