AI isn’t just making developers faster. It’s changing which skills hold value, how teams get built, and how many people it actually takes to build software.
Charles Fry, founder and CEO of CODE Éxitos, joined Brian Gorman on Beyond AI: Wisdom at Work to talk about what he calls the Post-Coding Era — and what comes after it. As agentic development takes over the mechanical work of writing code, the specialized skills that used to guarantee a career are becoming common. For a lot of people, that’s not a theoretical shift. It’s the loss of a role, a career, a path they’d counted on.
But the conversation doesn’t stop at what’s ending. Charles and Brian dig into what’s opening up on the other side: systems thinking, discernment, mentoring, and the judgment it takes to direct both human teams and AI systems at once. They talk through the rise of the “player-coach,” what happens to middle management, and the responsibility leaders carry for building this future around people — not past them.
Charles also shares how CODE Éxitos has moved past traditional office structures and fixed schedules, building a distributed team around mastery, autonomy, purpose, and la vida plena — living a full life.
In this conversation:
- Why Charles sees software development entering a Post-Coding Era
- What happens once deeply developed technical skill becomes common
- How systems thinkers and “player-coaches” are stepping into roles once held by specialists
- Why discernment, empathy, and mentoring are becoming the harder-to-replace skills
- How CODE Éxitos built a flexible, distributed team around la vida plena