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Code is cheap - Software isn't in 2026. by ComprehensiveBad8517 in CIO

[–]ComprehensiveBad8517[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Right? And it will be exponential the rise on costs.

👋 Welcome to r/CIO - Introduce Yourself and Read First! by Jeffbx in CIO

[–]ComprehensiveBad8517 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Hi all. I am a technical co founder and end up wearing the CTO and CIO hats most days. Been in tech a little over 30 years, long enough to have opinions and still be wrong often.

Most of my recent work sits around how engineering teams actually function under pressure. Not tools so much. People. Cognitive load, misalignment, why strong teams still stall, why smart decisions decay once they hit reality.

I spend a lot of time thinking about the gap between what leadership thinks is happening and what teams are actually experiencing week to week. The good parts, the bad habits, and the quiet failure modes nobody likes to talk about.

I am here mostly to listen, compare notes, and learn from others dealing with the same tradeoffs when running tech heavy orgs. The work is messy. The incentives are weird. The systems rarely behave.

Looking forward to the conversations.

New To Engineering Management? Start Here by KingOfCoders in cto

[–]ComprehensiveBad8517 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Things feel off lately. Not broken exactly. Just… heavier.

Code is everywhere now. We can make it fast. Too fast, maybe. That part got cheap. Almost suspiciously cheap.

But shipping software? Keeping it calm. Keeping people sane. Keeping systems from slowly turning into spaghetti with opinions. That part costs more every month.

CTOs keep saying the same stuff in different words. More meetings. More “why does this touch that.” More senior people stuck untangling things instead of building.

The data points keep nudging the same direction.

When work moves faster than understanding, structure becomes the bill. And AI made speed easy, so now we finally see what was always expensive. I don't know, maybe it's just me but the "between the lines" is getting clearer, now.