Supra Podcast: How AI is changing the future of software development
I got to join Marc and Ben from the Supra podcast to talk about how AI is changing how software teams operate.
Three things I took away from this conversation.
First, is that there are some things that AI doesn’t change. At the end of the day, you’ve still got to define the problem, define the approach, define the details. AI changes the tools, the artifacts, and the process, but it doesn’t change the basic facts of problem solving.
Second is AI is changing how software is made at three levels simultaneously: individuals, teams, and organizations. Individuals are trying out tools (e.g., Claude Code) and putting them into their workflow. Then there are some teams that are starting to adopt some of these tools en masse and reorganize their processes around them. Finally, there are organizations that are trying to figure out what all of this means for the “standard” way of working and shipping software.
To get this right, organizations need to be willing to change across 4 dimensions:
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Tools - What are the tools that are available to us? What are their benefits and limitations?
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Tactics - How do we coordinate with these tools to achieve a result? What are the artifacts that are created? What is the size and roles of people on the team?
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Training - How do we build competence on these new tools and tactics? How do we give people space, opportunity, and resources to experiment?
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Values - What does great work look like? What is important and celebrated?
Without all of these working together, organizations will fail to get value out of a transformative technology — and I have to be honest, now is a moment where I’d rather be at a small company experimenting with new ways of working than at a large company where I have to be concerned about how this works at scale.
You can find the whole episode here:
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Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/episode/7nozDSwSk3fuAK4TQWxm5l?si=oA0qIwIJShqTCjMOLFFC0Q
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Apple: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/81-i-spent-3-months-at-an-ai-native-startup-where/id1737704130?i=1000733726676
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YouTube: https://youtu.be/GbOw8_JViPA
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Substack: https://suprainsider.substack.com/p/81-i-spent-3-months-at-an-ai-native
2025-10-28