The Post-Vibe-Coding Engineering Org: Agent Review Pipelines, Model Selection, and Token Economics (feat. Srinivas Chippagiri)

Most “AI is changing engineering” content stays at the level of anecdote. This piece tries to go one layer deeper into four specific claims made in the conversation, each of which has concrete operational implications for engineering teams:

1. Cloud native’s definition is shifting under AI-assisted development,

2. Code review is becoming a two-stage, agent-then-human pipeline,

3. Model selection is a benchmarking problem, not a leaderboard-reading problem, and,

4. Token spend is emerging as a per-developer budget line that companies don’t yet know how to reason about. A closing section covers the SaaS market debate.

Krish Palaniappan sits down with Srinivas Chippagiri, a senior technical staff member with 15 years in software engineering, to unpack how AI is reshaping coding, code review, model selection, and the SaaS industry.