Your next enterprise software feature won’t be shipped. It will be generated.

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TL;DR

Enterprise software is approaching a shift where AI assistants generate features on demand rather than shipping them through product backlogs. Instead of filing a request and waiting months, a user describes what they need and the system generates a small program to do it. The article explores what this means for product teams, security, governance, and the definition of a ‘feature’ itself.

The enterprise feature backlog is where good user requests go to wait. That wait is about to get much shorter, not because product teams got faster, but because the missing feature can now be generated at request time and discarded thirty seconds later.

A support team lead opens her helpdesk application and asks:

Show me every ticket this month that was resolved and then reopened within 48 hours, grouped by the agent who first closed it.

No report does this. No filter combination can express...

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