Predictions for the future of AI-driven development

Here are the top impacts that we foresee

We believe that the coming switch to AI-driven solution development will bring about the biggest ever change to the world of business software. Here are a few things we believe will happen…

  1. End of Traditional Coding and Democratization of Development
    Human developers will transition from writing code to defining objectives, leaving implementation and debugging to AI systems capable of understanding and generating complete solutions. Non-technical users will be able to create sophisticated software solutions through natural language specifications.
  2. Near-Instant Prototyping and Deployment
    Software specifications will be fed into AI-based system generation tools to produce functioning prototypes or production-ready solutions within hours, minimizing the development lifecycle. This will allow specifications and systems to be built iteratively, leading to better quality outcomes as stakeholders are able to participate more effectively in the process.
  3. Bespoke Software Replaces Off-the-shelf (SaaS) Systems
    AI-driven development will create highly customized solutions tailored to individual company workflows, reducing the reliance on generic, off-the-shelf software. It will be less risky to have a perfectly tailored system generated than trying to figure out whether an off-the-shelf solution can do what any given business requires.
  4. Continuous System Optimization
    The system specification will become the new source code and non-technical users will be able amend this as the business evolves, rapidly generating and deploying updated capabilities. Applications will also be capable of evolving autonomously, analysing user behaviour and optimizing their own functionality and performance over time without requiring manual intervention.
  5. Real-Time Integration Across Ecosystems
    AI will enable seamless, automated integration between diverse business applications, eliminating data silos and ensuring real-time, cross-platform communication.
  6. More Flexible Data Structures
    Todays fixed data structures will be replaced by soft, tagged data models that can accurately represent every instance while being interpreted and managed by AI to produce consistent results.
  7. Enhanced Decision-Making Systems
    AI-driven software will embed predictive analytics and decision-making capabilities into business applications, empowering organizations to act proactively rather than reactively.
  8. More Capable Solutions
    The reduced cost of development, along with the simplified development process will free-up time and resources to address more ambitious objectives for system capabilities.
  9. Dynamic Compliance Management
    AI-driven software will autonomously adapt to regulatory changes, ensuring businesses remain compliant with legal and industry-specific standards without human oversight.
  10. Elimination of Legacy Constraints
    Legacy systems and work arounds will be rapidly modernized or replaced as AI-driven tools extract, translate, and re-implement functionality into modern architectures without manual redevelopment. This will lead to fully integrated end-to-end enterprise solutions.

In parallel with building your spec, we also build you a functional prototype of your system so that you can see a working model of the proposed solution during the design phase. This helps you to get a really solid understanding of what we are thinking and to confirm that it matches your expectations. It also helps to flush out issues or omissions while freeing your thinking to move up from the basic concepts to the more complex aspects of your solution.

We do all of this as an iterative and collaborative process so that you are able to steadily evolve your thinking and expand the specification as you develop confidence in the solution that we are proposing.

The specification and prototype that we create for you are your assets and they will become a living resource that drives the evolution of your system throughout its live usage as your business evolves and needs change.

We feed the specification that we create into our AI tools and these generate your solution. This  means we can eliminate most of the programming work that would have been traditionally carried out by developers.  However, rest assured that our highly-experienced software developers will be overseeing the process, ensuring that the AI generates appropriate output that offers the required functionality as well as being secure, robust and performant.

The system  generation is also an iterative process and so, again, its quick and easy for us to evolve the solution until it meets your needs precisely. This is achieved by continuing to build the system specification so that it describes  the requirements and associated solution with ever improving accuracy, then regenerating your solution via our AI tools.

In addition to generating the system itself, our AI tools also automate the solution testing process so that you can be sure of excellent quality at every stage.

Once you are satisfied with the solution we have generated for you, we can deploy it to whatever hosting environment you prefer – we can provide cloud hosting or you can use your own environment.

We will also apply our AI tools to the process of importing your old data into your new system, a process which thankfully  is also made massively more straightforward with the help of Artificial Intelligence tools.

Once your system has transferred into live operation you can continue to evolve it via the same process documented above. Changes can be made to the specification and a revised system generated so that your business can rapidly evolve to meet whatever needs may arise.

If you have the source code that was used to build your system then we will feed this directly into our AI tools to generate you a new system. This can even be used to change formats e.g. between desktop and web browser-based applications.

However, if you don’t have the source code then all is not lost because modern AI is so capable that it is possible to generate systems from English specifications and screen grabs of forms, so there will be a way to rapidly arrive at a replacement without starting from scratch.

Our AI tools will also take care of software testing and data import from your old system, so there’s really no reason to continue being tied down to your creaky old solution!

Once you have a new system up and running then you will enter a new age of agility as AI continues to provide the means of rapidly and continually updating your solution to meet the ever evolving needs of your business, so you are never tied down by a legacy system again.

Thank you for your interest in working for Provata

Please email your CV to talent@provanta.uk

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