people · May 21, 2026
Braze CTO Jon Hyman Discusses AI-First Engineering Shift on Stack Overflow Podcast
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Braze co-founder and CTO Jon Hyman joined Stack Overflow CPTO Jody Bailey on the Leaders of Code podcast. The discussion covered Braze's transformation into an AI-first engineering team completed in just a few months. Braze now generates over 60 percent of committed code using AI tools including Claude Code and Opus 4.5 plus a greenfield MCP server. Jon Hyman stated that senior engineering judgment remains essential because engineers spend tens or hundreds of dollars daily on AI inference costs. Braze engineering output effectively doubled from a 300-person team while competitors achieved similar productivity gains.
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