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The question is no longer whether AI will reshape BC development. It already has.

In Episode 3 of Over Budget, Frank speaks with Vjeko Babic, Microsoft Business Central MVP since 2010 and developer with 24 years of BC experience, about the structural shift AI is creating in Business Central development. The conversation examines agentic engineering, the end of the manual coder role, and what this means for partners and project teams today.

Vjeko Babic has not written a line of AL code manually in six months. In that period, he produced five times his previous output. A project that had 120 automated tests now has 3,009, generated overnight at effectively zero cost. A Business Central programme budgeted at EUR 1 million and scheduled for six months was delivered by another team in one month at EUR 180,000. These are not projections. They are the current conditions in BC practices that have adopted agentic engineering.

For BC partners, the implications are structural: staffing models, project estimates, and delivery frameworks built around manual coding are no longer aligned with what the market can deliver. For project sponsors and senior decision-makers, this episode answers the questions that belong in every steering committee conversation about Business Central in 2026.

“Don’t be afraid. Adopt it, accept it, and try to get the most out of it, because nothing else makes sense. You will not stay in business if you don’t.” — Vjeko Babic

Over Budget · EP 03 · Key take aways:

  • A Business Central project budgeted at EUR 1 million and planned for six months was delivered in one month at EUR 180,000. Agentic engineering is already changing project economics across the BC ecosystem. This episode examines how it happened and what it means for the programmes being scoped today.

  • Vjeko Babic, Microsoft Business Central MVP since 2010, produced five times more code in six months without writing a single line manually. When he asked a room of 40 BC developers whether they use agents to write code, every hand went up. This is the current state of BC development, not a projection.

  • Automated testing in Business Central projects has historically tripled project budgets. In this episode, Vjeko Babic explains how an AI agent generated 3,009 tests overnight for a project that previously had 120, at effectively zero additional cost. The budget argument against proper test coverage in BC projects no longer holds.

  • The Business Central developer role is shifting from writing AL code to understanding business processes and validating agentic outputs. This episode maps exactly where AL syntax knowledge stops being the core requirement and what replaces it. The answer has direct implications for how BC partners structure and staff their delivery teams.

  • The gap between BC practices that have integrated agentic engineering and those that have not is widening. What takes twelve months to establish cannot be reversed in four. Frank Maier and Vjeko Babic discuss what partners and project leads need to understand and act on now, before the gap becomes structural.

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