AI Transforms Software Dev: Zoho Engineer Does Year's Work in a Month, Says Sridhar Vembu

• Sridhar Vembu of Zoho highlighted how AI dramatically boosted an engineer's productivity.
• A single Zoho R&D engineer built a complex security tool in one month, a task usually taking a team a year.
• The key enabler was the Opus 4.5 AI model, which the engineer called a "game changer."
• AI compressed the entire development cycle, enabling faster iteration and refinement.
• Vembu compared AI's impact on software development to industrial-era machine looms.

Why It Matters: AI is revolutionizing software development, enabling unprecedented productivity gains for engineers.