The question is no longer whether AI is changing BC development. It already is.
In episode 3 of "Over Budget", Frank Maier talks to Vjeko Babic, Microsoft Business Central MVP since 2010 and a developer with 24 years of BC experience, about the structural shift AI is triggering in Business Central development. The conversation covers agentic engineering, the end of the purely manual developer role, and what that means for partners and project teams today.
Babic reports from his own practice: over six months he wrote not a single line of AL code by hand, and in that time reached a multiple of his previous output. Test coverage that used to weigh heavily on project budgets can now largely be generated automatically. For BC partners the consequences are structural: staffing models, effort estimates and delivery frameworks built around manual development no longer match what the market can deliver.


