{"id":1038274,"date":"2026-09-24T09:00:15","date_gmt":"2026-09-24T03:30:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=1038274"},"modified":"2026-09-24T09:07:40","modified_gmt":"2026-09-24T03:37:40","slug":"tech-teams-take-a-new-shape","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2026\/09\/24\/tech-teams-take-a-new-shape\/","title":{"rendered":"Tech teams take a new shape"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Most people want to know whether AI will replace engineers. Wrong question, and it produces the wrong planning. AI is not thinning teams evenly \u2013 it is changing their shape. The organisation charts that most of us grew up with \u2013 a broad, stable middle of people who coordinate, translate, review, and pass work along \u2013 is quietly compressing. <\/p>\n<p>What is left is an hourglass: deep domain experts at the top, AI-augmented execution at the bottom, and a much narrower band in between. I will not say this as a prediction, but as something we are already managing.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Most people want to know whether AI will replace engineers. Wrong question, and it produces the wrong planning. AI is not thinning teams evenly \u2013 it is changing their shape. The organisation charts that most of us grew up with \u2013 a broad, stable middle of people who coordinate, translate, review, and pass work along \u2013 is quietly compressing. What is left is an hourglass: deep domain experts at the top, AI-augmented execution at the bottom, and a much narrower band in between. I will not say this as a prediction, but as something we are already managing.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[63,4,12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1038274","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-it-2-the-financial-express","category-newspapers","category-the-financial-express"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1038274","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1038274"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1038274\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1038276,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1038274\/revisions\/1038276"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1038274"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1038274"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1038274"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}