Founded in 1997
About 100 people
Offices in Berlin, Munich, Würzburg
2 Owners/CEO
"Chief Tailwind Officer"
10.03.20 | First Corona Case in a customer team |
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11.03.20 | Meeting "Ok, what should we do?" |
12.03.20 | Home-Office, Workflow and IT preparation |
13.03.20 | Everybody & everything is working remotely |
19.03.20 | Bits&Pretzels calls: VideoConference for 50.000 |
21.03.20 | First prototype works in benchmark, Go for B&P |
29.03.20 | Virtual Founders Breakfast with 35.000 Visitors |
01.04.20 | Vodafone, WHU, ... ask for help |
20.05.20 | Joint Venture Mingle.Cloud GmbH with Bits&Pretzels |
Source: Doppelgaenger.io at OMR 2024
Artificial Intelligence (AI) will Be the Biggest Technological Shift We See in Our Lifetimes
Sundar Pichai, CEO of Google
This next generation of AI will reshape every software category and every business, including our own.
Satya Nadella, CEO of Microsoft
"They just want to sell their products"
AI can boost productivity at unprecedented speed.
First movers will be rewarded, and the global race is already on
without any question.
...
https://www.coatue.com/blog/perspective/ai-the-coming-revolution-2023
March 23 | Decision to use autonomous agents |
April 23 | integration performance 5-10 times faster |
May 23 | One team is replaced by autonomous agents |
June 23 | Roadmap Goals 2023 implemented |
July 23 | Requirements Management moved to pull |
Aug 23 | Focus on innovation and new opportunities |
Case Study: E-Commerce, online shop integration into
Marketplaces, including ad-buying
https://hups.com/blog/are-developers-needed-in-the-age-of-ai
Human
Product Owner
Architect
Developer
Testing Agent
Inline-
Documentor
Code-Quality Agent
Confluence
Intermediate Feedback and Observation
Interaction and Curation
Coatue AI Full Report Nov 2023, https://drive.google.com/file/d/1gQhYT7j6b2wJmrFZHNeQgTiWPyTsjOfX/view
Human
Requirements
Architect
Developer
Testing Agent
Inline-
Documentor
Code-Quality Agent
Confluence
BugFix-Agent
It is not just less perks, ...
My education has been devalued.
My experience has been devalued.
My core tasks disappear.
My way of cooperation disappears.
"5-6 golden years."
SCARF | Impact |
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Status | Your current status is 100% challenged |
Certainty | Future career prospects unclear |
Autonomy | Potential for a lot of autonomy |
Relatedness | Less social relatedness and interaction. |
Fairness | AI is unfair competition |
Growth / Entrepreneurial Mindset
Fun Fact 2: it will be easier for well established companies like this one to find software developers :-)
Fun Fact 1: Autonomous Driving is regarded a much harder problem than replacing lawyers, managers or software developers.