AI Could Change Everything. Just Not as Fast as Investors Think.

AI could change everything. But probably not as fast as the hype suggests.In this episode of The Growth Engine Podcast, I look at where AI is actually creating disruption today, why software development is so far ahead, and what we should watch for as AI starts to move into other industries.I use AI every day, and I’ve seen first-hand how dramatically it has changed software development. Developers are moving from writing code and researching solutions manually to working inside AI harnesses such as Cursor, Codex and Replit, where the job increasingly becomes setting goals, providing context and orchestrating outcomes.But outside software, the picture is much more mixed.In areas such as customer service, marketing, translation, accounting, legal and recruitment, AI is still largely assisting or producing rather than autonomously executing entire workflows. That distinction matters because AI adoption is not the same as AI disruption.In the episode, I explore the pattern I think we should be watching:Tool → Workflow → Orchestration → OutcomeI also look at Canva as an example of how disruption moves up the stack. Canva disrupted Adobe by making professional design accessible to more people. Now AI is beginning to challenge Canva itself, forcing it to think beyond the design tool and toward outcomes such as build a brand, launch a brand and grow a brand.We also look at which industries may be next, why customer service could move faster than legal or accounting, and why human judgement, trust and the cost of mistakes may slow adoption in many professional services.Finally, I share the signals that I think will tell us when real AI transformation has arrived: workflows and orchestration becoming more important than individual tools, pricing shifting toward outcomes, jobs and roles changing, and interfaces beginning to disappear altogether.AI may well become one of the great disruptive technologies of our time. The question is not whether it can change everything.The question is how long it takes to move from invention to transformation.#AI #ArtificialIntelligence #FutureOfWork #AIAdoption #AIAgents #SoftwareDevelopment #BusinessStrategy #DigitalTransformation #GrowthEngine