Axios CTO: AI accelerates work, shrinks teams, and reshapes storytelling

Axios CTO Dan Cox explains that AI-enabled agent teams cut development time dramatically (one project from three weeks to 37 minutes), allowing a leaner product/tech staff to double output and dramatically reduce technical debt; he argues the real competitive edge will be narrative coherence as AI reshapes software, contracts, and jobs across industries, with Axios using AI to lower backend costs in local news while hiring more journalists.