Kevin Surace says developers should use AI at least five times per hour or risk being outcompeted. A small startup with AI-enhanced staff can undercut a traditional insurer with thousands of employees by delivering products at a fraction of the cost.
When I ask people to raise their hand if they've used AI, everyone raises it. Then I say, raise your hand if you use AI more than once a month. You know, some of the hands raise. And I say, raise your hand if you use it 5 times an hour. If there's no developers in the room, nobody raises their hand. You go, but that's the standard. And if you're not using it 5 times an hour, your competitor is. What I worry about with large companies, and I think CEOs are recognizing this, if their people aren't using it at that level, there's a startup in Silicon Valley with a hundredth the number of employees. that are gonna start to eat their lunch because the cost of delivering those goods and services will be lower and they will deliver them at a lower cost, right? So if you're an insurance company and there's a startup in Silicon Valley that is doing this with 5 people instead of 5,000, you have a problem.
