Microsoft Pays Its AI Engineers 48% More. What About You?
SaaStr
JANUARY 11, 2025
"Software engineers working in AI earned 48% more than the average software engineer at the company, according to a payroll spreadsheet shared with BI."
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SaaStr
JANUARY 11, 2025
"Software engineers working in AI earned 48% more than the average software engineer at the company, according to a payroll spreadsheet shared with BI."
Tom Tunguz
JULY 13, 2025
In software engineering, Github’s pull requests or Linear tickets serve this purpose. Very productive AI software engineers manage 10-15 agents by specifying 10-15 tasks in detail, sending them to an AI, waiting until completion & then reviewing the work.
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SaaStr
JULY 5, 2025
It’s a good set of people that can work together and be multidisciplinary – software, engineering, product management, strategy – a cohesive group.” Why a dozen? ” Critical mass : “If we didn’t have enough money to hire a dozen great people, we shouldn’t have started to do anything.”
SaaStr
JANUARY 10, 2025
” Vincent predicts: “Designers will be able to create software, engineers will be able to create designs, and all of these roles are going to start blending together.” ” Figma envisions a “role collapse.”
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SaaStr
JULY 22, 2025
Consider these acceleration case studies: Cognition AI : Reached $2 billion valuation in just 5 months after founding in November 2023, becoming “the world’s first fully autonomous AI software engineer” xAI : Elon Musk’s AI venture achieved a $24 billion valuation in under 10 months, breaking records for rapid value creation (..)
SaaStr
MARCH 12, 2025
So while AI for coding and software engineering has seen some of the most explosive start-ups, from Codeium to Loveable to Poolside to Claude and OpenAi’s own releases here and more, just as big if quieter has been the change to contact center and support.
SaaStr
MARCH 18, 2025
Software engineering teams have been early adopters of AI coding assistants precisely because they provide an immediate, measurable lift. Project Selection: Where Enterprises Go Wrong Many companies stumble by deploying AI in high-risk, customer-facing applications first (like chatbots). This is exactly backward.
Tom Tunguz
JULY 9, 2025
First, the average salary for a software engineer in Silicon Valley. Second is the total cost of AI used by that engineer. Third, the number of agents an engineer can manage. 😳😅 So let’s update the table and assume another $1000 per month per engineer.
SaaStr
JUNE 23, 2025
The CTO who said “we don’t need AI people, our engineers can figure it out “ is now 12 months behind companies that hired AI-native talent in early 2024. Traditional software engineering skills and AI engineering skills have meaningful overlap, but they’re not the same thing.
SaaStr
JUNE 10, 2025
Social media is full of hot takes about AI replacing developers, the death of software engineering, and whether we’re all doomed or destined for greatness. The Vibe Coding discourse has gotten loud. There’s already a lot of truth here, and the explosive growth of Cursor, Windsurf, Loveable, Replit, etc.
Sales Hacker
MAY 20, 2025
My son, my son who’s a software engineer, shows me examples of, Hey, this is how AI can simplify some of the really mundane things that really drown you and Rev ops people in their day to day and free you from those shackles to do the more important things. The most amazing thing when. Holy crap.
User Pilot
MAY 27, 2025
With a background in software engineering and a Masters in Product Design, he combines technical depth with growth-driven business acumen to deliver impactful, user-centric solutions. Som Nath [Image] Candidates short profile Som has over 6 years of experience in the tech industry, particularly in 0-to-1 startup environments.
SaaStr
MARCH 5, 2025
Some users report tasks that once took four weeks now taking just six hoursa game-changer for software engineering. Their first product generates 45% of the code written by developers, and their newest agentic IDE, Windsurf AI, allows non-technical users to build applications in minutes. The real impact?
Crafty CTO
JUNE 18, 2025
And if you actually do that, you know, what I described also sounds a lot like good software engineering practice. And I think that going even deeper to just like making it possible to just move so much faster as a company. That’s I think where we’re headed. Swyx: How do you think that Codex changes the way we code?
Tom Tunguz
NOVEMBER 5, 2024
Occupation Employment (in millions) AI Technology Software Developers & IT 2.71 Computer adaptive instruction & testing Engineers 1.73 Software engineers were the first to benefit with Copilot. Code completion, generation, refactoring, security analysis Education & Librarians 2.37 Sales Managers 0.4
SaaStr
FEBRUARY 9, 2025
Prior to founding Klaviyo, Andrew worked in software engineering and product development, bringing a deep technical understanding to the marketing automation space. Under his leadership, Klaviyo has grown to nearly $1B in ARR and successfully went public in September 2023.
User Pilot
APRIL 24, 2025
With a strong background in software engineering and an MBA in Lean Operations, she bridges technical depth with business acumen to deliver impactful solutions. Last 2 professional positions Product Manager, Dell Technologies (20212023): Led the strategy and roadmap for a low-code customer communication platform.
Stax
JUNE 23, 2025
According to Stax’s Lead Software Engineer Austin Kelsch, an ACH API is a “subset of the broader payment API category” and is used mainly to facilitate ACH transfers. Your developers will use the ACH API to write software that will connect your business to the network and eliminate the need for manual payment requests.
Buffer Resources
FEBRUARY 20, 2025
Bizi is the side project of Joe Delgado, a software engineer here at Buffer. However, it didn’t make the list as you can’t upload files to it, striking it out in my book. It’s also generally less advanced in long-form content generation and is more of a true chatbot. It’s currently free to use.
SaaStr
MAY 14, 2025
So Atlassian is the developer software engine that just keep going: $5.4 Billion in ARR Growing 14% — and importantly, predicting 19% growth for Q4’25 500+ $1m Customers 300,000+ Customers total 5 Interesting Learnings: #1.
Tom Tunguz
JANUARY 8, 2024
Lines of code or number of commits focus on components of the engineering process. Perhaps, latency optimization is the analogue in managing software engineering teams. Latency encompasses the entire chain. Alexander the Great cut through the Gordian knot with his sword.
Tom Tunguz
OCTOBER 19, 2023
The patois of data teams has become a dialect of modern engineering teams because the commonalities in the stack.
TechEmpower SaaS
MARCH 4, 2024
In the sphere of software engineering , AI is pivotal for corporate IT by automating coding, optimizing algorithms, and enhancing security to boost efficiency and minimize downtime. By automating routine and complex tasks alike, AI allows engineers to focus on innovation and strategic tasks.
Tom Tunguz
JANUARY 17, 2021
Quality Assurance is truly about the automation of certain parts of software testing. The automation of QA is a secular trend that perhaps accelerated with more software engineers working from home. Life insurance and emergency medicine certainly fit the COVID-19 narrative.
The Daily Egg
JANUARY 12, 2021
Before modern and more intuitive website builders, coders and software engineers had to spend hours designing web pages, adding long […]. You followed the recipe perfectly and viola! Somehow, everything aligned. When it comes to building a website, it can work the same way.
FastSpring
APRIL 29, 2020
I am currently a Software Engineer at FastSpring. The post Employee Spotlight: Lucas Salisbury, Software Engineer, and Innovative Chef appeared first on FastSpring. FastSpring’s Employee Spotlight is a Q&A series that features the hardworking, intelligent, and fun people that make FastSpring great.
Intercom, Inc.
JUNE 15, 2022
We’re excited to sponsor a new equity, diversity, and inclusion scholarship for students of the University of Limerick’s Immersive Software Engineering (ISE) course – valued at €10,000. Software engineering will play a crucial role in the future of business, society, and even our planet. Practical experience.
Tom Tunguz
JUNE 1, 2023
Sales development, content marketing, & software engineering strike me as the workstreams that will benefit immediately. Engineering 25% 40% 10% Overall - - 13% See assumptions here 1 This thought experiment highlights a few ideas to validate : AI initiatives focused on cost-reduction should start with engineering.
Andreessen Horowitz
MARCH 19, 2024
The confluence of new biological methods like CRISPR, virtually unlimited computational capacity, and machine learning has fundamentally transformed our ability to engineer biology for wide-ranging applications.”
Tom Tunguz
NOVEMBER 28, 2023
Recently, Philip shared his management techniques to run a data team like a standard product software development function with some key nuances. I asked him to join us on Office Hours to share his perspective because we believe data and software engineering practices converge.
Tom Tunguz
OCTOBER 28, 2024
In the past, software engineering teams and data teams haven’t collaborated, but data pipelines & AI endpoints rapidly becoming essential parts of software, they now work together much more closely. AI is changing the structure of data teams.
SaaStr
DECEMBER 8, 2023
A Merger of Two Personas — Software Engineer and ML Engineers Ten years ago, your data stack involved systems that produced data. Now, those ML engineers are becoming part of the core workflow. Integration of ML Engineers and Software Engineers : The line between ML engineers and software engineers is blurring.
Tom Tunguz
DECEMBER 17, 2023
Data teams are becoming software engineering teams. I learned a tremendous amount about the way modern data teams, who leverage software engineering disciplines, operate. The video is here. For Philip, leading the data team is about focusing on the data products that drive meaningful value to the company.
Infinicept
OCTOBER 12, 2021
We focus on mission-critical applications and integrations that are the engine of our business. JOB DESCRIPTION Location: Denver or remote The Opportunity: Infinicept is a fast-growing, Denver-based fintech company. You will be an integral part of a small team that builds and maintains a platform that revolutionizes payment facilitation.
TechEmpower SaaS
SEPTEMBER 25, 2023
And the #1 symptom relates to that old software engineering adage: The first 90% of a project takes half the time. Rapid turnover, especially of senior or “A” developers. Developers aren’t aware of the progress of the current dev cycle, or even what’s in it. The last 10% takes the other half.
Tom Tunguz
APRIL 28, 2022
Third, software engineers decentralize only a subset of the app. Developers pay for low-latency storage with the same protocol token as they would pay for compute. Perhaps this dynamic drives consolidation in the market, paralleling the web2 infrastructure hypermarts of AWS, GCP, and Azure.
Tom Tunguz
AUGUST 5, 2019
But I had forgotten about it until I listened to the author on the Software Engineering Daily podcast. Earlier this year, I read Algorithms to Live By, a book that explains how to use insights from computer science in daily life. One of the rules is the 37% rule. It’s an important rule because it’s broadly applicable.
Tom Tunguz
JULY 4, 2022
Today, top grandmasters spar with supercomputer-powered chess engines to improve their play. Those sentiments echo in the articles about the end of software engineering that popped up after the Copilot launch. Many articles were written twenty years ago about the potential demise of the human chessplayer. They have it wrong.
SaaStr
NOVEMBER 26, 2024
Who is Eric Yuan | CEO of Zoom Eric Yuan joined WebEx as one of the first several software engineers. He was instrumental in developing the WebEx videoconferencing technology and eventually became Vice President of Engineering. billion, and Yuan continued with the company as their Corporate Vice President of Engineering.
Agile Payments
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How to Start Your Career as a Software Engineer in a SAAS Company.
Infinicept
OCTOBER 15, 2021
We focus on mission-critical applications and integrations that are the engine of our business. JOB DESCRIPTION Location: Denver or Remote The Opportunity: Infinicept is a fast-growing, Denver-based fintech company. You will be an integral part of a small team that builds and maintains a platform that revolutionizes payment facilitation.
SaaStr
FEBRUARY 7, 2023
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Tom Tunguz
MAY 19, 2018
Kubernetes, containers, serverless, continuous deployment have transformed software building. These technologies fomented a movement that has changed software engineering: devops. Devops combines the responsibilities of software developers and infrastructure operations.
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