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SAP: AI rollout across 40,000 developers has caused no job reductions
“Where we have actually rolled out tools to broadly our 35, 40,000 developers, as you pointed out earlier, that is already giving significant efficiency in terms of development, in terms of execution engineering systems, pipeline management that we do internall…”
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Alam: SAP expects headcount growth despite AI scaling 40,000 developers 5x
“And with that, what we're looking to go do is now not just operate at the throughput of 40,000 people, but operated the throughput of five X of 200,000 effective staff to deliver even more innovation for our customers, and we might even Honestly, in 26, barrin…”
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Alam: AI-enabled 200-person startup matches output of 2,000 enterprise developers
“In today's world with the tech that's out there, a 200% startup can actually operate at the throughput of what we operate with 2000 or a thousand. Where we sort of maintain and sustain our advantage is if we take our 2000 and now operate it at the pace of 8000…”
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Alam: Tech layoffs fix pre-AI structural issues, not AI automation
“In some cases they're also fixing things that were just things that needed to be fixed pre-AI. They're just fixing it post-AI and it's sort of a bit of a, because it's happening post-AI, AI gets an effect.”
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Alam: SAP pilot team delivered a full quarter's output in two weeks
“Another team as part of these front runner teams came and said, hey, we delivered almost all of what we did in the last quarter in this last two week sprint.”
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Alam: Every engineer will need to become a manager for AI agents
“I think every engineer would need to learn the skills of being an engineering manager because you'll have a set of agents, if not humans working with you to be able to sort of deal with code that from a size and a scale perspective is exponential compared to w…”
Insight
Alam: AI enables product managers to build up to 80% of apps
“Gone are the days where a product manager is just writing a spec and sort of giving a set of instructions or requirements for somebody else to go build, like a product manager necessarily now can be empowered to generate an app and get it to 40, 50 in some cas…”
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Alam: Enterprise adoption of autonomous AI agents will take a full decade
“That end state of everything is going to be run by agents, billions of agents. I mean, I think it's just, it's an unrealistic, hyped up end state right now that we're not ready to get to, and I think there's a lot of other people that are now saying the same t…”
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SAP is training RapidOne tabular AI models using permissioned customer data
“We announced at TechEd a couple weeks ago that we're super proud of is our RapidOne model which we are now taking the thing that we believe we uniquely have, which is the thousands of customers that have given us permission To use their aggregated anonymized d…”
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SAP's deployed AI tools have boosted internal developer throughput up to 20%
“We're generally within 10 to 20%, even better already with the tools we've rolled out with the potential of what we just discussed a few minutes ago. I think that the potential is, is multiples of what we delivered today from a throughput perspective.”
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Alam: Enterprise AI will advance from efficiency assistants to autonomous financial closes
“Now, these capabilities ladder up to an assistant that makes that role 20% efficient to begin with, As we add more, it becomes 50% more efficient, 60%. Eventually, it will get to a place where you can say that, hey, most of the recommendations, eight or nine o…”
