Many companies have problems growing too fast, the old mantra is that organic growth is best. IMO this is because you have time to instill your indirect governance in the people joining.
AI enables people to consistently deliver new features at a record pace. This will come at the expense of direct oversight.
Tools like rover/studio will help ensure that we are not leaving a trail of broken legacy apps from schema changes.
What other tools do we need to enable this rapid expansion?
I’m thinking app registry, like studio but expanded. Workflows for deployments to K8 or other infrastructure. Testing platforms, etc
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Great question Kenny.
One I’ve been thinking about is an AI Schema Co-pilot. It should be able to move far beyond traditional linting to both flag schema designs that don’t match an org’s (or industry wide) “schema standards” but also, interactively engage on design tradeoffs. Improving schema comments would also be interesting.
There are some fairly obvious challenges regarding hallucinations, but it feels like this would be very fruitful area to explore. I can imagine needing a way for an org to add their own pre-defined prompts to guide the Co-Pilot.
That way, you’d end up with an agent that doesn’t just enforce standards—but actively educates and supports thoughtful schema design at the individual contributor level.