I'm an AI maximalist (I haven't touched a line of code since Dec 2025, barring some config files) and I agree with the article. Most teams won't be meaningfully accelerated by AI because building was never the bottleneck in most orgs. Knowing what to build usually was. I routinely finish everything on my plate pretty quickly with LLMs, so my personally processes have accelerated. I've fired off agents to build stuff that I personally want out of the product but would have been infeasible to build manually. And I'd work on my tasks at the same time.
But when I compare company roadmap this year to a few years ago, you can't tell that any needle has moved at all in terms of technology and features.
That said, we're kinda in a weird era where the optics of AI usage is more important than anything because investors want to see it, because they think it will give their company a leg up on the competition, which is not necessarily true!
But when I compare company roadmap this year to a few years ago, you can't tell that any needle has moved at all in terms of technology and features.
That said, we're kinda in a weird era where the optics of AI usage is more important than anything because investors want to see it, because they think it will give their company a leg up on the competition, which is not necessarily true!