AI-Driven Development Series
Where Do We Go From Here?
Jon Leahy | Staff Software Engineer | Pismo/Visa
Personal exploration - not an official initiative
AI-Driven Development Series
Where Do We Go
From Here?
Strategic direction for an uncertain future
But first...
Let me be honest with you.
I could be wrong.
This might not be
the future.
Being late is expensive.
Was fire invented?
And then cooking
evolved from it?
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Was cooking needed?
So fire was invented
to serve it?
Both.
The interaction
created civilization.
Same with AI.
And more inevitable
than an option.
The bet.
What if we're wrong?
What do we lose?
Better specs.
What if we're right?
We change everything.
10x
development velocity
This is asymmetric.
That's the shape
of the bet.
Strategy.
The moat question.
If everyone can
generate code...
What's the competitive
advantage?
Code was never
the moat.
The real moat?
Position.
Things that
can't be generated.
Code just expresses
those things.
Internal AI vs
External AI.
Internal AI
How we build.
How we think. How we work.
Internal AI compounds.
External AI competes.
Not everything should
be regenerated.
The skill is knowing
which is which.
Remember the
paradigm shifts?
Then they became
invisible.
We don't have to believe
this is the destination.
I've been chasing that spark
for forty years.
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Magic happens.
AI is bringing it back.
Amplifying it.