09/03/2026
Our owner, Ben Selland, has been having some conversations about how AI will change the way we operate and what that means for the future of technology development. See what he had to say below:
I think that change is inevitable, and I don’t think it’s a bad thing. If you understand your job to be simply taking a fleshed-out request and converting that into code, then AI is getting really good at that, and it’s going to take a lot of the work out of that part of the job. But our job isn’t simply writing code.
Is writing code a part of what we do? Absolutely, and AI has made us much more efficient at it. But a much, much larger portion of our work is upstream of that. It’s working with an organization to understand their problems, documenting those problems, figuring out how or if technology can address them, deciding what the right technology looks like, and then figuring out the way to build it in a sustainable and reliable way. Once you’ve done all that work, sure, AI can help you write the code and do it well. But then there’s the other side of that: making sure what you build continues to work, is maintainable, is reliable and is actually an asset that an organization can use for the next five, ten or fifteen years. That’s much more than just writing code.
And honestly, I think there’s going to be a lot more software built because of AI. I don’t think that developers are going to lose their jobs. They just may be able to do a higher percentage of work with the same number of people. That’s what I find interesting.
We’re using AI in software development, but we’re also finding really good ways to use it for things like documentation, technology research, project planning and QA. Those parts of the industry aren’t as far along with AI enablement as software development itself, and we’re seeing some really good results there.
For us, AI isn’t about replacing the work. It’s about being able to do better work with better tools.