What it takes to benefit from GenAI coding

GenAI coding tools are genuinely powerful. In the right hands, in the right environment, the stuff is remarkable.Experienced engineers with good practices around them are doing things in hours that used to take weeks. Ideas get tested that previously stayed as hypotheses. Long-standing technical debt is getting cleared. Work that wasn’t worth the investment a year ago is now done in an afternoon.Right environment means organisations that genuinely understand software engineering. An appreciation that building software is not a production line, but a learning process.Right hands means experienced software engineers who take full end to end ownership. Product mindset. XP practices. Continuous delivery with all the automation, tests and guardrails that let you learn and iterate quickly without breaking things.Most organisations don’t have that, which is why most of the industry isn’t getting much from these tools.The organisations best placed to benefit from GenAI are the ones who…