AI Augmented Software Engineering
There is no denying, AI augmentation of a "classic" software engineering process, the one that we've all been happily using for the last couple of decades, is transforming the IT industry as a whole. The claimed productivity boosts are in high triple digit percentages for some industries and the terms like "vibe coding" are entering mainstream IT lingo.
However, there is a widespread misconception that almost anyone can now build anything they think of, just by using an appropriate AI agent (and a bit of YOLO), and that therefore the technical expertise and structured development processes are becoming a thing of the past.
There is also an opposite misconception that goes in the direction of "AI hallucinates too much and is therefore unusable."
The second one can easily be mitigated with a "Human expert in the loop" approach and the first one inevitably leads to "Big ball of mud" system architecture (a.k.a. "AI slop") and general collapse of product quality.
However, there IS a way to "have your AI cake and eat it too" - meaning, if you want to have that triple percentage digit performance gains but still want to enforce your internal standards, retain full control over system architecture and product quality, then you need to approach AI augmentation of your development workflow in a structured and planned matter.
In short, you need strong experts and strong in-place processes as a prerequisite for successfully AI augmenting software engineering within your organization. Setting that up is not an easy feat, but that is where we from Stabljika come in.
Our key services for facilitating AI augmentation:
To make sure that your organization doesn't miss the AI augmentation gravy train, our experts can:
- Audit of your existing development processes and identify any significant inefficiencies relevant to AI augmentation
- Propose a set of clear and immediately actionable measures that would mitigate any issues found and make your existing process ready for AI augmentation (with a side-effect of improving and stabilizing its delivery even without AI augmentation)
- Help you implement recommended actions or even implement them on your behalf
- Train your key technical personnel in the tools and techniques of AI augmented software engineering - customized for the technology stack you are using.
- Enhance your teams with AI augmentation coaches
- Enhance your teams with AI augmented technical product owners or tech leads
- Engineer and develop proofs of concept for your new projects using AI augmented software engineering - using a fraction of resources typically used for that particular kind of projects
In short - We can audit your existing processes and internal tech. knowhow and fix them where needed so that both you as an organization and your internal processes are ready for AI augmentation.
Finally, we believe in practicing what we preach - so if you want to see that famed AI augmented software engineering "in action" first - our AI augmented engineers can build your next proof of concept (or a full blown project) for you using the fraction of resources you've used to spending on such endeavors.