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You don't get 10x faster by breeding better horses
by Chris Hornby
21 August 2026
You don't get 10x faster by breeding better horses. You invent the car.
And you don't get 100x faster by building a better car. You invent the aeroplane.
In my domain (software), we've already seen those jumps.
- Human → AI-assisted development was the 10x.
- AI-assisted → agentic development is the 100x.
I'm convinced we'll see the same thing across all domains.
We see this already with clients:
- using tools like Lovable to put prototypes in customer hands in a day, or
- letting decision-makers talk directly to their data without complicated BI layers.
Finding the place where AI lets you do the work completely differently is a real ah-ha moment.
It's not easy to find, but it's worth the effort.