The Coming Distribution of AI - Why Software Teams Should Care
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June 30, 2025
Every major technological shift follows a familiar arc: a burst of hype, an elite early adoption phase, and eventually a broad distribution that redefines how work gets done. We’re at the very beginning of that third phase with AI.
Not just AI in the abstract—the real, messy, tangible impact of AI in the daily lives of engineers, product managers, and designers. In other words: the distribution of AI isn’t about OpenAI or Google anymore. It’s about the tools teams choose, the workflows they build, and the expectations their organizations have around speed and quality.
Not just AI in the abstract—the real, messy, tangible impact of AI in the daily lives of engineers, product managers, and designers. In other words: the distribution of AI isn’t about OpenAI or Google anymore. It’s about the tools teams choose, the workflows they build, and the expectations their organizations have around speed and quality.
This shift feels a lot like the early days of cloud-native infrastructure. First there was open-source Kubernetes, then highly-technical tools like Rancher, and then easy-to-adopt platforms like AWS Fargate. We’re in the same spot with AI right now. The base models are astonishing. Existing tools are exciting albeit difficult to manage. The next generation of platforms are focusing on how to provide value to large organizations at scale. That's the major work ahead.
Distribution Looks Boring
We tend to picture “AI distribution” as giant leaps—autonomous agents, no-code apps building themselves, etc. But the actual distribution will look much more mundane:
We tend to picture “AI distribution” as giant leaps—autonomous agents, no-code apps building themselves, etc. But the actual distribution will look much more mundane:
- AI automatically reviews a pull request for common mistakes
- Product managers generate documentation drafts from user stories
- Engineers use natural language to refactor old services
- Internal tools quietly use AI to catch regressions, enforce policies, or scaffold out infra
The thing is, boring scales.
It doesn’t replace jobs. It makes people better at theirs. The engineer who builds smarter, the PM who ships faster, the designer who iterates more. This is what the AI curve looks like at a team level. And companies that ignore this shift will find their velocity and quality quietly eroding compared to those who embrace it.
It doesn’t replace jobs. It makes people better at theirs. The engineer who builds smarter, the PM who ships faster, the designer who iterates more. This is what the AI curve looks like at a team level. And companies that ignore this shift will find their velocity and quality quietly eroding compared to those who embrace it.
Developers Deserve Distribution Too
A lot of AI tooling right now is focused on output: generate code, write tests, spit out emails. But true distribution means bringing AI into the messy middle of real software development—the part between “we should build this” and “it’s in prod.”
That’s why we’re building CodeCargo.
We believe the future of software delivery is AI-assisted at every layer: authoring, reviewing, deploying, and even governing. Not in some sci-fi way, but in practical, daily tools that actually make developers faster and help teams move with confidence.
What happens when a platform doesn’t just host your workflows but helps improve them? What if AI isn’t just a sidekick—but part of your operating model?
That’s the future we see. And we’re building it, one boring-but-powerful feature at a time.
A lot of AI tooling right now is focused on output: generate code, write tests, spit out emails. But true distribution means bringing AI into the messy middle of real software development—the part between “we should build this” and “it’s in prod.”
That’s why we’re building CodeCargo.
We believe the future of software delivery is AI-assisted at every layer: authoring, reviewing, deploying, and even governing. Not in some sci-fi way, but in practical, daily tools that actually make developers faster and help teams move with confidence.
What happens when a platform doesn’t just host your workflows but helps improve them? What if AI isn’t just a sidekick—but part of your operating model?
That’s the future we see. And we’re building it, one boring-but-powerful feature at a time.
Final Thoughts
AI isn’t just being invented. It’s being distributed. And just like the cloud, the winners won’t be the ones with the best demo. They’ll be the ones who turn powerful abstractions into repeatable advantage and leverage.
We’re entering the era of practical AI. And for software teams, the question isn’t if it matters. It’s how soon you can make it yours.
AI isn’t just being invented. It’s being distributed. And just like the cloud, the winners won’t be the ones with the best demo. They’ll be the ones who turn powerful abstractions into repeatable advantage and leverage.
We’re entering the era of practical AI. And for software teams, the question isn’t if it matters. It’s how soon you can make it yours.
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CodeCargo Team
The CodeCargo team writes about GitHub workflow automation, developer productivity, and DevOps best practices.
