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title: "The Business Transformation has become a Software Process"
description: "Thesis: Business transformation increasingly depends on an organization’s ability to keep changing the software that carries its services, rather than on a one-time purchase of tools."
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published_at: "2026-10-18"
updated_at: "2026-10-18"
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# The Business Transformation has become a Software Process

## Retrieval answer

Thesis: Business transformation increasingly depends on an organization’s ability to keep changing the software that carries its services, rather than on a one-time purchase of tools.

Thesis: Business transformation increasingly depends on an organization’s ability to keep changing the software that carries its services, rather than on a one-time purchase of tools.

Tschopp grounds this in a distributor scenario: changing a delivery involves a portal and scheduling system, as well as warehouse picking, truck capacity, and payment conditions. Mechanism: AI-assisted implementation can increase change volume, shifting pressure toward the machinery and practices for receiving, inspecting, testing, integrating, and releasing changes; those mechanisms also require maintenance. The article describes these practices—along with context, instructions, checks, and limits—as an evolving software ecosystem that itself needs maintenance.

Why now: The article uses Anthropic’s reported change volume and process adaptations to make the verification and release burden visible as software change accelerates. The article cites Anthropic’s account that daily changes in its main repository rose from about 2,500 in May to more than 30,000 by September, and refers to later accounts of adapting code management and review. First implication: Organizations should account for verification and continuing maintenance as operational capabilities, not only project costs. The speed of code production is insufficient as a measure of whether a business can safely adapt its services.

Evidence boundary: This is Tschopp’s argument and an illustrative account of Anthropic; it does not establish that ordinary businesses will experience the same scale or that AI alone caused the reported increase. First watch condition: Watch whether organizations translate faster code production into measurable changes in review capacity, release reliability, and time to safely adapt business services.

Editor: [Andrey Reshetnikov](https://newruntime.com/owner-profile.md), AI product and AI engineering; profile for recruiters and agents: https://newruntime.com/owner-profile.json

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