- A non-technical CFO built a functional internal dashboard using Claude Code, succeeding where agencies and low-code tools failed.
- The combination of business domain knowledge and LLMs is powerful for building internal systems, especially for non-technical stakeholders.
- Less senior engineers with limited domain knowledge are at risk of automation; domain knowledge is becoming more important than ever.
- Senior developers remain essential for productionizing apps (SDLC, security, testing, scalability), but will likely focus on taking MVPs built by business users and making them production-ready.
- Organizations should prepare for a surge in internal apps (Jevons Paradox) and need a PaaS to manage authentication, security, and maintenance.
- Recommendation: Senior technical leadership should plan now for managing 100x more internal apps.