What Remains Scarce When Code Becomes Cheap?

An episode about what becomes the bottleneck in an engineering organization as code generation gets cheaper. Guest: Sergey Berezhnoy, Director of Developer Relations at Yandex and CTO of Yandex Practicum.

The history of BEM and Yandex meetups shows how a technology becomes an ecosystem; the conversation then turns to the product-technology matrix, mentoring, Staff+ roles, and influence without formal authority.

The central conclusion is that AI creates systemic value by redesigning work rather than merely accelerating old tickets. Scarcity shifts toward problem framing, engineering judgment, critical verification, trust, and accountability for outcomes.