Your Big Bet

If my big bet is that companies are going to start building more software for themselves, then your big bet is to take this on.

There is a real upside to an AI-centered development process.

You can get through backlogs faster. You can build things that have been sitting on somebody's "wouldn't it be nice" list for years. You can build software around the way your company actually works instead of trying to make your company fit the way a SaaS product works.

But it takes work.

You do not buy a coding harness, pick an LLM, write a few guidelines, and walk away.

You have to maintain context at the company, organization, group, and project level. You have to decide which providers and models you work with. You have to test what gets built. You have to keep adjusting as models and harnesses become more capable.

As that capability changes, you will be able to move more people out of repetitive development work and into finding, defining, and building the next growth opportunities for your company.

But you cannot move responsibility out of the loop.

This is not for the faint of heart. It requires real involvement from the company. It also creates opportunities for a new generation of developers who understand AI tools, but also understand data, code, frameworks, and testing.

There will be growing pains. But getting started can be an immediate, or close-to-immediate, improvement.

That may be your big bet.