In a large company, a dedicated team might build an internal tool that dozens of other teams use. If your team needs a feature for its own workflow, you have to explain the use case, agree on how it fits into the shared tool, and wait for it to get prioritised.

With AI coding tools, it might now be faster for the team that needs the feature to build and maintain its own tool or completely scratch the tool and rebuild it if need. I’m curious how that plays out once the tool has been in use for a while.

So is paradigm shifting where we remove centralisation of building internal tools and let teams decide?