{"slug": "when-the-cost-of-code-approaches-zero-what-does-engineering-leadership-look-like", "title": "When the cost of code approaches zero, what does engineering leadership look…", "summary": "Engineering leaders Eric Anderson of Intuit and Ben Matthews of Stack Overflow discussed on the \"Leaders of Code\" podcast how the near-zero cost of AI-generated code is reshaping software team management and engineering leadership priorities. The conversation focused on the strategic implications for engineering organizations as artificial intelligence dramatically reduces the expense and effort required to produce code.", "body_md": "On this episode of Leaders of Code, Eric Anderson, director of engineering at Intuit, joins Stack Overflow engineering director Ben Matthews to talk about what happens to software teams when AI makes code generation seemingly free.", "url": "https://wpnews.pro/news/when-the-cost-of-code-approaches-zero-what-does-engineering-leadership-look-like", "canonical_source": "https://stackoverflow.blog/2026/06/11/engineering-leadership-zero-cost-code/", "published_at": "2026-06-11 07:40:00+00:00", "updated_at": "2026-06-11 19:13:33.901023+00:00", "lang": "en", "topics": ["artificial-intelligence", "generative-ai", "ai-tools", "ai-products"], "entities": ["Eric Anderson", "Intuit", "Ben Matthews", "Stack Overflow"], "alternates": {"html": "https://wpnews.pro/news/when-the-cost-of-code-approaches-zero-what-does-engineering-leadership-look-like", "markdown": "https://wpnews.pro/news/when-the-cost-of-code-approaches-zero-what-does-engineering-leadership-look-like.md", "text": "https://wpnews.pro/news/when-the-cost-of-code-approaches-zero-what-does-engineering-leadership-look-like.txt", "jsonld": "https://wpnews.pro/news/when-the-cost-of-code-approaches-zero-what-does-engineering-leadership-look-like.jsonld"}}