Writing Code Is Free Now. Reviewing It Isn’t.

Guru Bhat on what happens at Google when code becomes cost-free: more to review, more to maintain, more to grapple with.

Guru Bhat gives the shift a name: orchestration. His teams at Google turbo charge everything they can with AI, and he argues that engineers now need taste, knowing when to reach for it and when not to, because being AI fluent is not the same as being AI dependent. Then he turns it into a hiring problem: how do you assess for that? For engineering leaders and recruiters whose interview loop has not caught up.