Dev Interrupted AI isn't for cutting costs, it's for multiplying impact | Super.com's Matt Culver
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Oct 21, 2025 Matt Culver, a senior engineering leader at Super.com, discusses the transformative potential of AI beyond cost-cutting. He argues that viewing AI as a tool to enhance developer impact can foster a high-trust culture. Culver advocates for reinvesting efficiency gains into improving the entire product lifecycle rather than just boosting coding output. He emphasizes the importance of aligning AI initiatives with developers' core incentives, promoting a frictionless experience, and nurturing creativity to drive value in engineering.
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AI As Revenue Leverage
- Treat AI gains as leverage to increase value per engineer rather than pure cost savings.
- Reinvest time savings into faster product discovery and shorter time-to-revenue.
Scaling Without More Engineers
- Super.com scaled product output year over year without growing engineering headcount.
- They did this by removing friction and optimizing developer tooling, not by firing people.
Use AI As A Collaborative Investigator
- Ask AI to collaborate and investigate instead of demanding instant answers.
- Use it to enhance your intuition and avoid accepting plausible but unvetted outputs.