Tech Teams Today · 2026-05-21 · 36 min
Every engineering leader is being told AI changed everything. But what actually changed? Josh Anderson sits down with Josh Holat, CTO of Cube, to draw a line between two things that have quietly gotten conflated: coding and engineering. The tools moved fast. The job didn't. Code review is the new bottleneck. Tests still have to pass. Your name is still on the commit, even when an LLM wrote half of it. They get into AI slop in pull requests, why "senior software engineer" became something not to put in a cover letter, how Cube interviews now that take-homes are dead, the shift to smaller teams and what's replacing agile, token budgets without theater, and the JSON test harness that lets a 20-person FP&A engineering team ship with confidence in a domain where rounding errors end careers. About Our Guest: Josh Holat is the CTO of Cube, a spreadsheet-native FP&A platform used by finance teams to plan, model, and report without leaving Excel or Google Sheets. He's been building and scaling engineering teams for over 15 years, including a prior co-founder role that ended in acquisition.
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