The CTO Is Dead. Long Live The CTO
CIO, Monday, March 16th, 2026
From bottleneck to multiplier: Why the new era demands a completely different kind of technology leader.
Six months ago, we used to say that Large Language Models could handle the work of a junior engineer. Delegate the boilerplate, keep the real thinking for the humans. That was the comfortable narrative. It's already obsolete.
Today, the latest generation of LLMs in the market can produce system architectures that account for parameters, constraints and interdependencies no single human brain can hold simultaneously.