Engineering

Sunday 15th March 2026

The most interesting thing AI does isn't building new things

Everyone's talking about AI building new things. Agents coordinating agents, full orchestration, Steve Yegge's Gas Town [1] running 30+ Claude Code instances simultaneously. David Heinemeier Hansson's take [2]: "The most exciting thing we've made computers do since we connected them to the internet." He's right. But most of the conversation focuses on building from scratch, pushing boundaries, greenfield. Right now, I'm more interested in what AI does to everything that already exists, the old stuff, the "legacy", the systems that actually run businesses and pay everyone's wages. That's where I spend a good chunk of my time at Pitchero: a small team, a huge platform, ever competing priorities. And it's also the reality for government, healthcare, and every other organisation sitting on decades of accumulated software.

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