| Thanks for the reply. I would like to explore this more if you are willing. Do you consider yourself a “developer”? What is your title at said company? Do you write code for yourself or for this business? Who determined and what criteria define who “cannot be a client facing consultant”? What is an “in house builder”? What were these “fulltime devs” that you said “you don’t need anymore” doing before these llms? Do your customers know you swapped from human workers to llms? Are they comfortable with this transition? How did this change result in “much higher profit margins”? When you say “with less people” did you just give multiple peoples’ workloads to a single dev or did the devs you retained ask for more work? What do you use an llm for in the ERP space? Why would clients use you if they could just use the llm? |
Yes , for the past 40 years. And CTO/co-founder.
> Do you write code for yourself or for this business?
I have been writing DSL, code generators and other tooling for the past around 20 years for this company. Before that I did the same thing for educational software (also my company).
> Who determined and what criteria define who “cannot be a client facing consultant”?
They did; some people just don't like sitting with clients noting down very dry formulae and business rules.
> What is an “in house builder”?
Our in-house tooling which uses AI to create the software.
> What were these “fulltime devs” that you said “you don’t need anymore” doing before these llms?
Building LoB apps, bugifxing, maintaining, translating Excel or business rules to (Java) code.
> Do your customers know you swapped from human workers to llms? Are they comfortable with this transition?
Yes, they like it; faster (sometimes immediate results) and easier to track; no black box; just people sitting next to you.
> How did this change result in “much higher profit margins”?
Very high fees for these consultants but now they do 'all the work'; in total they make more hours than they did before, however much less than they did as programmers. But the fees are such a multiply that the end result is larger profits.
> When you say “with less people” did you just give multiple peoples’ workloads to a single dev or did the devs you retained ask for more work?
Yes, 1 consultant now does that work and can manage more.
> What do you use an llm for in the ERP space?
Feed it specs which get translated to software. This is not the type of 'he mate, get me a logistics system in german'; the specs are detailed and in the technical format we also use to write code ourselves the past 20+ years.
> Why would clients use you if they could just use the llm?
See above, we have a lot of know-how and code built in. That's why we cannot really sell this product either as no-one will get useful stuff out of it without training.