Software’s Re-Founding Moment: What Separates Transformation from Theatre

by · Inc42

SUMMARY

  • The challenge for incumbents is that building an AI-native company is fundamentally different across nearly every organisational vector
  • AI-native teams must deeply understand what the models can do and reason forward from capability, not just backwards from requirements. The entire orientation shifts from demand-led to possibility-led
  • A study tracked 62 Mn workers across 285,000 US firms and found that junior employment at companies actively adopting generative AI declined by 7.7-10% within six quarters of adoption.