The Bay AI Is Changing Tech Work. Here’s Why It Matters for the Rest of Us
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Mar 18, 2026 Rya Jetha, tech culture reporter at the San Francisco Standard who covers AI’s impact on Bay Area work life. She discusses why Bay Area engineering shifts foreshadow broader change. She describes what using AI at work actually looks like, contrasts startup excitement with junior worker strain, and considers how rising productivity reshapes expectations and other industries.
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AI Fluency Is A New Workplace Requirement
- Bay Area CEOs now demand AI fluency from employees and expect them to adopt AI tools and workflows.
- Rya Jetha says workers must stop being AI skeptics and change processes to avoid being labeled obsolete at startups and larger firms.
Experiment And Upskill With AI To Protect Your Career
- Experiment with AI tools and take trainings to 'bulletproof' your career against workforce thinning.
- Jetha cites Andy Jassy encouraging employees to play with AI and upskill to avoid becoming casualties.
Agents Are Replacing Parts Of Engineering Work
- Software engineers are expected to use coding AIs like OpenAI CodeX and deploy multiple autonomous agents to solve tasks end-to-end.
- Jetha explains agents can plan, implement, test, and return finished work, altering engineers' traditional role.