I CTO si sono stufati di fare i CTO, scrive Gergely Orosz:
Unrealistic expectations, including about AI, by founders and CEOs are the leading cause of jobs turning bad for CTOs and VPEs right now in 2026:
- CTO expected to magically transform the company to be “AI-native”
- CTO must make significant engineering cost cuts of up to 20-50%, including morale-sapping job cuts
- “Do more with less” equals shipping more with fewer people (e.g., no backfills)
- CTO faces pressure on business results as AI coding bills rack up
- Founder slop: they want wonky AI prototypes shipped as full-blown products within weeks