Podcast · Over Budget · EP 03

Agentic engineering in Business Central

How agentic engineering is structurally changing Business Central development. With MVP Vjeko Babic.

Host
Frank Maier
Date
28.04.2026
Guest
Vjeko Babic
Length
62 min
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What this podcast is about

  • How agentic engineering is structurally changing development in Business Central
  • Why the developer's role is shifting from coding to understanding and validating
  • What this means for effort, staffing and delivery at BC partners
  • Which questions on this belong in every steering committee discussion in 2026

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.

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The key takeaways

  • Agentic engineering is already changing project economics across the BC ecosystem today. The episode shows how that happens and what it means for the programmes being planned right now.
  • Babic produced a multiple of his code over six months without writing a single line by hand. In a room of 40 BC developers, every hand went up when asked about using agents.
  • Automated tests have historically made BC projects far more expensive. Babic explains how extensive test coverage can now be produced at almost no additional cost. The budget argument against proper test coverage no longer holds.
  • The developer role is shifting from writing AL code to understanding business processes and validating agentic output. That has direct consequences for how partners set up their teams.
  • The gap between BC practices that have adopted agentic engineering and those that have not is widening. What takes twelve months to build cannot be caught up in four.
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Do not be afraid. Adopt it and get the most out of it, because nothing else makes sense. (Vjeko Babic)

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