How Two French Engineers In New York Built The Company That Monitors The Entire Cloud
DataDog co-founder told engineers they will stop writing code manually within two quarters
“Hey, in two quarters, we're not writing any any code anymore.”
DataDog co-founder Olivier told the company's engineering team that within two quarters they would no longer be writing code manually, citing AI-assisted developers rebuilding entire systems in days that previously required teams of six over six months. This is a notable public signal from a major cloud infrastructure company that AI coding tools have crossed a productivity threshold significant enough to reshape team expectations. The framing — a co-founder making this claim to a full engineering org — marks this as an internal culture shift, not just a product pitch.