Mistral AI founder to French Parliament: "Engineers at Mistral no longer write a single line of code

[https://youtu.be/vczBo0AvbTI?si=pglMPmTjsq-TNJa9&t=375](https://youtu.be/vczBo0AvbTI?si=pglMPmTjsq-TNJa9&t=375) "Today, engineers at Mistral no longer write a single line of code. It used to be more of a craft if you were an individual contributor. You wrote your code, and people loved that craft. I come from there, I loved that craft. Today, you're no longer a craftsman, you're a manager. You ask agents to write the code for you. You provide the specifications, you're giving orders. It's a profound shift." within the last 6 months, the dev job has flipped from "I write my code" to "I supervise agents that code for me." He adds that productivity gains are massive when working solo (10x to 20x), but drop significantly in teams due to organizational bottlenecks. The cost? Around €10,000 per employee per year in AI consumption, roughly 1 kW (half a GPU) per person.