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Giacomo Balli
The Second Opinion

For owners and CEOs about to spend serious money on software, AI, an app, or a vendor.
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AI in Engineering, Delivery, and Data

AI assisted coding isn't a "boost" anymore. It is the default way devs ship software (or your team falls behind).

Treat AI as a teammate, not a plugin. Rewrite the delivery playbook: PRs include AI summaries, tests are the spec, staff engineers edit for architecture, and the repo is a prompt dataset with prompt debt tracked. In a midmarket fintech, this cut cycle time 38% in 6 weeks and avoided a 24% defect spike.

Change the metric. Track cost per passing test and days to prod; on a mobile checkout, making AI the default for code, reviews, and test generation dropped cost per passing test from $12.80 to $7.10 and pulled a release in by 9 days.

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Published: Wed, Dec 17 2025 @ 10:16:39
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