
Ali Dasdan
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Aug 13, 2026
Ali Dasdan, Dropbox CTO on Scaling AI Infra & Engineering Leadership
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Grace GongHOST
How should they evolve with their career if one day they will also want to be a CTO?

Ali DasdanGUEST
So except in rare cases, I don't think anybody's writing a line, manually every line, day to day.

Ali DasdanGUEST
I think if you look at the entire decades of, let's say, how software development has evolved, there were always transformations, right? maybe everything was manual at that one point, you were writing machine language, and assembly, then high-level languages, and more and more automation came, improvements in the design and testing, and all of these are evolving.

Grace GongHOST
So how do you evaluate which part we're going to use, which model are doing what kind of token usage, what compared to, we're just going to leverage human to do a certain type of work.