This as-told-to essay is based on a conversation with Andrew Hsu, the cofounder and CTO of Speak, an AI-powered language learning app. The following has been edited for length and clarity. I'm a cofounder at Speak, a growth-stage AI-native startup. We're building an AI language tutor using the power of AI and speech recognition models. The whole company is about 150 people, and we have about 60 engineers. Coding agents weren't viewed as a central tool for actual software engineering teams until