February 4, 2026
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Why are we still building development teams like it’s 2020?
Twenty-five years ago, I could have written that same sentence and replaced “AI” with “the Web,” and forty years ago, “the personal computer.” This is not an article about needing to use Claude or other agentic AI tools; that is something you should be doing already. In this case, I’m talking about a fundamental restructuring of how software gets built and deployed.
Duleepa “Dups” Wijayawardhana
Venture Partner