7CTOs Member Led Deep Dive- What AI Is Doing to Engineers: Finding Your Way Back to Meaningful Work
The work is changing faster than anyone has time to process. Shipping is faster. Output demand is higher. Engineering has started to feel like babysitting an agent. And somewhere in the upheaval, the part of engineering that made you good at this, and made you want to do it, got lost.
Engineers are resigning. Some are leaving the role entirely. Strong performers are being moved to security and governance to keep them interested, and everyone knows that is a temporary fix. The instinct is to call it exhaustion and solve it with process, which is exactly why nothing is working.
This session names what is actually happening when the work you built an identity around moves to an agent, and why that hits differently depending on whether you are running the team or on it. Nobody can tell you what engineering looks like in two years. You can still be steady inside that, and steady is something you build, not something you wait for.
Eva Minkoff works with executives and technical leaders on identity and agency through AI-driven change, with a background across health tech and startups. She will walk through three things that determine whether people stay and whether the work feels worth doing again, with time to work each one on yourself during the hour.
CTOs and engineering teams welcome. Everything you write stays with you.