“AI is harder to integrate than we thought.”

For those of you that don’t know, the first cars were just carriages with engines strapped on.

It worked—until it didn’t.

Once the engine became the center of the design, everything changed.

That same shift needs to happen with your software.

Most teams today are bolting AI onto legacy systems

It might work—but it’s slow, messy, and impossible to scale.

We’ve talked to over 100 engineering leaders. They all say the same thing:

“AI is harder to integrate than we thought.”

Of course it is. Your system wasn’t built for it.

If AI isn’t at the core, you’re just duct-taping intelligence onto a system that was never designed to be smart.

You don’t need a plugin.

You need a redesign.

The teams who rebuild around AI will ship faster, adapt faster, and win.

Everyone else?

They’re just strapping rockets to a horse and wondering why it won’t fly.

The future belongs to the teams who build for AI, not around it. 

What do you think?