If developers already have their silver bullet — TypeScript — then managers have just found a new favorite: the AI-Native Team.
It’s this idea that a small team can be as productive as a big team. Sounds like something you’ve heard before? Well, here’s the important addendum: as productive as a team of 50 people. So not even a team anymore — a whole organization. A department.
The Builders
The AI-Native Team doesn’t write code itself. It manages agents. It sets up agent factories for developing and delivering code.
So they’re full-full-full-stack developers, except they’re called Builders. (Builders. Yes. That’s the word. I checked.) They’re responsible for, well, everything.
Of course, what the word Native means here is anybody’s guess. But anything you can attach Native to somehow runs faster — or so the hope goes.
So what do we Builders do?
First — accept it. Call yourself a Builder, a forward engineer, whatever you like: the job has changed.
And now your task is to remove yourself from the development loop. To automate simply everything. The goal is a pipeline you never have to touch.
If you can’t deploy features to prod from your phone, then there’s still work to be done.
O brave, brave new native world.