Stop Throwing AI at Your Software Process. Start Strategically Placing It.
Stop Throwing AI at Your Software Process. Start Strategically Placing It. A practical framework for integrating AI into brownfield software development The CEO’s Napkin vs. Reality I’ve sat in enough boardrooms to know the drill. Someone draws four boxes on a whiteboard: Idea → Design → Develop → Deploy Then the AI conversation starts, and those four boxes collapse into three: Idea → ☁️ AI Magic ☁️ → Money I get it. AI is exciting. The demos are impressive. But if you’ve ever managed a real software team — especially one maintaining systems that have been running for years — you know that napkin sketch is missing about 98% of what actually happens. ...