AI-Powered Development: What Most Agencies Won't Tell You

AI-Powered Development: What Most Agencies Won't Tell You

Every development agency on the planet now claims to use AI. It is on every landing page, in every pitch deck, and mentioned in every sales call. Most of it is theater.

The honest truth about AI in software development is more nuanced, more interesting, and more consequential than the marketing suggests. After building over 1,200 products and integrating AI into every phase of our development process, here is what we have learned that most agencies will not tell you.

The Dirty Secret: AI Alone Produces Mediocre Software

Let us start with the uncomfortable truth. If you take a junior developer, hand them an AI coding assistant, and ask them to build your product, you will get something that looks functional on the surface an