Why Smaller Engineering Teams May Be Building Better Products

Everyone bought the AI coding tools, but the productivity boom didn’t automatically follow. And Claudio González, CTO at Germany-headquartered software engineering and digital product consultancy intive claims the companies winning aren’t the ones with the best tools – they’re the ones who rebuilt the team around them.

The tools arrived first. Across the industry, engineering teams now reach for AI the way they once reached for Stack Overflow. In 2025, four in five developers said they were using AI in their workflow.

But here’s the twist in the same Stack Overflow Developer Survey: as adoption climbed, trust in what the AI produced actually fell.

González has a theory as to why. He’s watched plenty of clients buy tools and wait for the magic to show up. “Adding a code assistant on top of the old one doesn’t get you there,” he told 150sec.

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