Hoxton Mix in TechRound: Our CTO on the AI Shift Reshaping Software

Our co-founder and CTO Ben Rometsch was invited by TechRound to join a panel of AI experts reacting to one of the biggest stories in tech right now.

You can read the full expert roundup here: AI Experts React To Anthropic's Plans To Publicly Release Mythos — TechRound

A genuine step-change for engineering

Ben's contribution stood out for how candidly it captured what the last year has felt like from inside an engineering team. After more than twenty-five years of writing code by hand, line by line, he describes a remarkable shift: in recent months, he's barely written a line himself.

The reason is the rapid leap in AI coding tools, which have gone from struggling with anything complex to confidently planning and building entire features. As Ben put it, the tools have become so capable that the team has found itself running short on engineering work and asking the product team for more to build — something that, in his words, had simply never happened before.

What this means for the businesses we serve

It's easy to read AI headlines and feel either hyped or unnerved. The grounded reality is more useful: AI is letting small, focused teams deliver at a scale that used to require far larger ones.

That's precisely how we've built the Hoxton Mix platform behind the scenes — a lean team using the best available tools to ship genuinely good products for over 60,000 businesses. The same forces that let us do that are increasingly available to every small business willing to embrace them.

The pace isn't slowing down, and we're not just watching it happen — we're building with it.

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