Nearform CEO Ciaran Cosgrave looks at the advantages of AI-native teams over traditional pyramid-shaped structures in software engineering. Welcome to the AI-native engineering team. The autopsy of the traditional delivery modelThe traditional tech consultancy team model was built on a simple idea that more people equals more output, and offshore centres made it possible to grow capacity quickly and cheaply. This pyramid-shaped team model grew tall and strong. An AI-native engineering team reflects this shift in how it is structured and how it operates as it assumes that AI handles execution, while humans handle judgement.