Most engineering organizations can demonstrate AI adoption, but few can articulate the specific changes that follow the implementation of AI coding agents in their daily workflows. Saral Jain, SVP, Head of Engineering, and CIO at Snap Inc., manages engineering for an app with nearly a billion monthly users. His team built the internal agent system that the organization now depends on. 

CXOTalk episode 929 explores how Snap organizes, assesses, and oversees this operational model.

What we will cover:

  • What agentic AI software development looks like day-to-day at Snap, starting with the golden path, its managed set of agents for code generation, review, incident triage, and crash resolution.
  • Casper, the autonomous coding agent, can be invoked by any team at Snap from a Slack conversation, and AI agents help Snap compete with far larger companies.
  • How Snap measures the value of agents, what still requires slow manual coding, and where the capacity freed up by faster building went.
  • Where agents act on their own, when human review is required, and whether engineers read and understand all the code being created.
  • How the engineer role, technical interviews, and the junior talent pipeline change when agents handle routine work.
  • Advice for CTOs and CIOs on building an enterprise AI operating model, what worries Jain most, and what comes next for AI agents at Snap.

Join this interactive session with Saral Jain live on Friday, August 21, 2026, at 1:00 PM ET on CXOTalk. Subscribe for key takeaways from every episode and advance notice of live shows.

Episode Participants

Saral Jain is SVP, Head of Engineering and CIO at Snap Inc., after nearly a decade leading engineering teams at Amazon Web Services; he is tasked with redefining how a platform with nearly a billion monthly users ships in the AI era. 

Michael Krigsman is a globally recognized analyst, strategic advisor, and industry commentator known for his deep expertise in business transformation, innovation, and AI leadership.