Zoho's Sridhar Vembu: AI Accelerates Software Development Dramatically After Internal Demo

• Zoho co-founder Sridhar Vembu witnessed an internal demo showcasing AI's dramatic impact on software development.
• A senior engineer independently built a complex assembly and machine code security tool in just over a month.
• The project, developed outside formal workflows, would traditionally have taken a small team nearly a year.
• The engineer, initially an AI skeptic, credited an advanced AI model (Opus 4.5) for the rapid acceleration.
• Vembu suggests AI-powered tools will significantly disrupt traditional coding, comparing it to industrial machinery.

Why It Matters: AI dramatically accelerates software development, enabling complex projects in record time, as demonstrated at Zoho.