Last week was conference week for me. I spent the start of it at Tessl's AI DevCon and the end of it at Muslim Tech Fest, where I hosted a design roundtable.
AI DevCon was filled with discussions about agents, workflows, evaluation, and the future of software. Muslim Tech Fest was filled with discussions about AI too, but through a different lens: community, responsibility, and building meaningful careers. On the surface, they felt unrelated.
By the end of the week, I wasn't sure they were discussing different problems at all.
Why individual AI gains don't translate to teams
One of the recurring themes at AI DevCon was the challenge of scale. Many teams have now experienced what AI can do for an individual contributor. A developer paired with the right tools, whether Claude Code, Cursor, or Copilot, can move faster, explore more options, and ship a working prototype in an afternoon that would have taken a week not long ago.
