Parallel Entrepreneurism: Shipping Startups Side by Side | Kirby Winters, Ep 50

“Things that used to take us years and millions of dollars, now we can do in months, and it's just incredible.”

“Knowledge now has become a commodity. You go out to any of your agentic AI guys and ask them something, and suddenly you're an expert. The big problem that people are seeing now is, what do I do with that?”

On AI-accelerated software development velocity

“The biggest team I ever managed was over 50 people. And even then, we were taking and moving maybe a couple hundred tickets a month or a sprint. Now you have your plan, right process, which is a real agentic AI. We're going to line up the board with 100 tickets. And then, like a couple of days later, like, oh, all these are moved over.”

“If you don't give your employees a way, a path to get those tools certified or get those tools accepted to be used in the organization, they're just going to go rogue and do it on their own. And then ask for permission later, you know, after they've already screwed up.”

“The AI takes away a lot of that boring, kind of repetitive stuff, and then makes your people more empowered to use their brains and use their expertise to really make an impactful result.”