Ali Ghodsi on AGI, Enterprise AI, and Whether Software Is Dead

Faster coding only shortened one part of Databricks' software-delivery process. CEO Ali Ghodsi says a production connector, software that brings data from another system, originally took nine months. His team's initial assessment was that AI coding could reduce that to seven and a half months. His interview identifies requirements gathering and test-environment setup as remaining delays.

Ghodsi says the team subsequently shipped seven connectors in one quarter after shortening requirements work, outsourcing environment setup and sharing responsibility across seven engineers. His account illustrates how faster implementation can make shorter planning cycles useful, while organizational changes determine whether that speed reaches delivery.

“I think we already have AGI so we already have artificial general intelligence.”

Ali Ghodsi

“So software obviously isn't dead and it's not going to be dead and Nvidia and Open AAI and Entropic are not going to be dead companies”

Ali Ghodsi

“The models just don't have or the agents don't have the context that humans have inside of organizations.”

Ali Ghodsi

“So I think good ideas are very hard to come by actually.”

Ali Ghodsi