You have heard that AI agents can build software much faster. So why not hire one engineer and let the agents do the rest?
Because writing software with agents is a method, and it has to be run well. An engineer defines the task, agents write and test the code, and the engineer reviews it and decides what ships. Done well, it changes how fast software gets built. Done badly, it produces code nobody understands and security holes nobody sees.
Companies that want this speed in house tend to hit three walls.
The people can be hard to find
Someone has to design the process: how agents get their tasks, what they may touch, how every change is checked, and who answers for the result. Engineers who can do this safely and efficiently are in demand, and hiring one can be hard and competitive. Without one, you risk developers who paste prompts into a chat window and hope.
The setup can be costly
A specialist team and the infrastructure under it can be costly: build servers, test environments, access controls, version control and review tools, monitoring. You pay for it even in months with little work.
Faster work leaves the setup idle
With agents, some work can take much less time. That is good for delivery and can be bad for a budget built on a fixed team: if your continuous development needs less effort than it used to, the powerful setup you built sits idle most of the month. It is sized for peaks, and most of your needs are steady and small.
What a specialist partner gives you
You use the result of the setup, not the setup itself. With a partner that already runs it:
- Small steps you can test. Work arrives in short steps you can see and try.
- Changes are tracked in version control. Engineers direct the agents.
- Documented for your reviewers. We document the work so a reviewer can follow it.
- You pay for the work you commission. Pricing depends on the project and is agreed in the contract.
- Your priorities first. You decide what comes next and what goes live.
Questions to ask any partner
- Who directs the agents, and who answers for each change?
- How is every change checked before it reaches production?
- Which tools may touch your code, and may your data be given to them? This is agreed in the contract.
- Who owns the code? It is set in the agreement for each project.
- How do you document the work?
If a partner cannot answer these in plain words, keep looking.
Where we fit
Michele Solutions acts as the software development department of companies that do not want to hire and run one: backend, frontend, mobile apps, desktop software, AI, cloud and distributed systems. You don't need to hire developers or manage them day to day. You set the priorities and approve what goes live.
Our outsourced software development service. Tell us about your software. A short description is enough: what it does, your current stack and who leads on your side.
