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Time of India
a day ago
- Business
- Time of India
As AI redefines engineers' roles, Cisco CPO Jeetu Patel reveals 'grossly underestimated' skills needed for the future
Hiring More, Not Less: Cisco's Contrarian Approach AI as a Co-Pilot, Not a Competitor Forget Syntax — Think Strategy You Might Also Like: AI poses a greater threat to women in the workforce, but why? ILO study reveals alarming gender gap predictions The Imagination Age is Here You Might Also Like: Bill Gates predicts only three jobs will survive the AI takeover. Here is why In a world increasingly reshaped by artificial intelligence, the engineering profession is undergoing a rapid evolution. While many tech companies are rethinking the size and scope of their engineering teams, Cisco is taking a different path — one rooted in expansion and reimagination. Jeetu Patel, President and Chief Product Officer at Cisco, recently spoke to Business Insider, offering a compelling vision of how the engineer of tomorrow will look very different from the one we know the industry buzzes with discussions of automation replacing human roles, Cisco is "unapologetically hiring" engineers, Patel revealed. With 27,000 engineers already on board, the company isn't slowing down. "We feel more constrained now than ever before on not having enough engineers to get prosecuted all the ideas that we've got going internally," he said. For Cisco, the limitation isn't in the talent they have — it's in the untapped ideas they want to bring to said, Patel is not blind to the reality of AI redefining roles. Cisco has already partnered with OpenAI to integrate its Codex AI coding assistant into the company's workflow. The tool performs tasks like code writing, bug fixing, and test running — effectively becoming a digital co-pilot to human engineers. This shift will make engineers significantly more productive, freeing them from routine coding and allowing them to focus on high-impact innovation.'AI will make engineers 10 to 50 times more productive,' Patel noted. 'The speed at which an idea becomes a product will go from months to minutes.'So, what does the engineer of the future need to focus on? Patel emphasized that traditional skills like syntax understanding — while still important — will become less central. Instead, two 'grossly underestimated' skills will come to define engineering success in the AI AI tools become more sophisticated, engineers will need to master the art of managing not just human teams but also agent ecosystems. These AI agents will communicate, collaborate, and solve problems in tandem — and someone needs to oversee that orchestration. Patel believes that knowing how to delegate intelligently between humans and machines will be 'super important.'Beyond coordination lies creativity. According to Patel, the true value of a future engineer will rest not in how well they code, but in how well they imagine. As AI reduces the grunt work, engineers will have more space to ideate and innovate. Tools like Codex, he says, 'unlock human imagination,' removing bottlenecks created by a scarcity of paradigm shift isn't just about productivity — it's about job satisfaction. Patel believes that engineers, liberated from repetitive tasks, will find more meaning in their roles. "This evolution will improve output capacity, but also the satisfaction that someone gets from a job," he said. In his words, the only remaining constraint in the engineering world will be one's Cisco redefines what it means to be an engineer in the AI age, the message is clear: the future belongs not to those who code the fastest, but to those who think the furthest.
Business Insider
3 days ago
- Business
- Business Insider
2 'grossly underestimated' skills that will be valuable in the next era of engineering, according to Cisco's CPO
It's no secret that the role of engineers is changing — and in some cases, shrinking. That's not the case at Cisco, though, the company's president and chief product officer, Jeetu Patel, told Business Insider in an interview — at least, not yet. The company has 27,000 engineers and is "unapologetically hiring" more, he said. "We feel more constrained now than ever before on not having enough engineers to get prosecuted all the ideas that we've got going internally," Patel said. Patel isn't denying that AI advancements will redefine the role of engineers, though. Cisco recently partnered with OpenAI for design testing on its new Codex AI coding assistant, which offloads repetitive tasks and performs tasks like writing code, fixing bugs, and running tests. Patel said Codex will allow companies to pair human software engineers with an AI counterpart. Understanding the nuanced details of syntax in coding language will still be important, Patel said, but there will be less emphasis on it in the future. He said that skill won't be "consequential" in the next five years. Two other skills, which are "grossly underestimated," will take precedent, the CPO told BI. Patel said one of those will be "orchestrating agent workflow." That will involve overseeing a whole family of agents who talk to each other to ensure they solve problems. Salesforce EVP of talent growth and development, Lori Castillo Martinez, similarly said in an earlier interview with BI that it's more important than ever to know which tasks are best suited for agents and humans. She said the best managers are those who can analyze teams and maximize productivity. "That will be super important," Patel said about orchestrating agent workflow. Patel said the second skill that will become valuable is "quality of ideas." It appears that engineers will need to have a lot of them. Patel said tools like Codex "unlock" human imagination so that the "scarcity of developers" doesn't constrain companies from innovating. The CPO said that AI augmentation will make engineers 10 to 50 times as productive, with engineers spending more time thinking and less time fixing bugs. Patel said the speed at which an idea becomes a product will go from months to minutes. Dropbox VP of product and growth, Morgan Brown, previously shared similar advice with BI. In the age of AI, he said product managers should focus more on what he referred to as the "deep work," adding that companies are eager to have more great ideas. Patel said that this evolution will improve "output capacity, but also the satisfaction that someone gets from a job." "The only constraint becomes their imagination," Patel said.
Mint
26-05-2025
- Business
- Mint
After string of outages, Elon Musk says he's returning to 24/7 grind to fix X: ‘Will sleep in server rooms'
Billionaire Elon Musk has said he is returning to a 24/7 work schedule to fix issues at X, and will be 'sleeping in conference/server/factory rooms.' The social media platform X (formerly Twitter) has faced frequent outages since Musk's takeover, which included cutting almost 80% of its staff and making a slew of other changes. However, outages have grown even more frequent in recent days, with the platform experiencing at least three major disruptions last week. After the latest outages, Musk, who had recently shifted focus to helping Donald Trump win the US election and later to cutting US federal expenses via DOGE, now says he will be 'super focused' on working at X, xAI, and Tesla, while also making major 'operational improvements.' You may be interested in In reply to a post on X, Musk wrote, 'Back to spending 24/7 at work and sleeping in conference/server/factory rooms.' The world's richest man added, 'I must be super focused on 𝕏/xAI and Tesla (plus Starship launch next week), as we have critical technologies rolling out. As evidenced by the 𝕏 uptime issues this week, major operational improvements need to be made. The failover redundancy should have worked, but did not.' Notably, Musk had promised to release the Grok 3.5 update to xAI's paid subscribers last month, but there has been no update since. Grok last received a major update in February, when Musk and his team hosted a live session to introduce reasoning and Deep Search features to the chatbot, alongside their latest frontier model. Since then, xAI appears to be falling behind in the AI race. OpenAI has released a native image generation feature, along with its o3 and o4-mini reasoning models, GPT-4.1, and the Codex AI agent. Meanwhile, Google unveiled a suite of new AI capabilities in Gemini during its I/O 2025 developer conference.
