https://www.bankingdive.com/news/wells-fargo-ceo-scharf-ai-employment-banking-jobs/821368/
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I would love to see Sharts last 10 prompts in copilot.
I have been thinking a lot about AI and engineering work. The productivity gains are real. Code moves faster, test cases are easier, documentation takes less effort, and research that used to take hours can happen much more quickly.
At the same time, engineering has never been just about producing code. A lot of the value comes from debugging, architecture discussions, mistakes, tradeoffs, and learning the system deeply enough to shape it yourself. If AI starts solving too much of that for us, we may lose some of the judgment and ownership that made the work meaningful.
Anyhow, I do not think the answer is to reject AI. It is too useful for that. The question is how we use it without quietly replacing the curiosity, craftsmanship, collaboration, and mentoring that make good engineers, and good teams, stronger.
“We want to do as much through normal attrition as we can, and we would say just on that journey, we’re far from done. Not even close.”
There are no signs of the chainsaw being put away. But that is all Scharf knows. He has never shown the ability to grow business at any of his stops.
There are probably 257+ instances of “ummm” and “ahhhh” from chuck shart during that discussion