AI is fundamentally changing software engineering. Within the next few years, AI will generate and modify a significant share of the software that powers SDVs. While this promises unprecedented gains in development speed, AI also offers enormous potential to build more robust, higher-quality systems.
The automotive industry is already struggling with growing software complexity and increasingly distributed architectures, resulting in ever more challenging system integration. As AI accelerates software creation and enables increasingly sophisticated functionality, the challenge shifts from building software to mastering its complexity. The question is no longer how to write more code, but how to understand the systems we create. AI, therefore, is not only part of the challenge - it must also become part of the solution.
Drawing on more than 20 years of experience leading some of the automotive industry's largest software transformation programmes, Alfons Pfaller argues that the next competitive advantage will not come from writing software faster, but from understanding complex software-defined systems better. He explains why AI must evolve beyond a coding assistant into an engineering capability that helps organisations understand, manage, and scale highly complex software-defined systems - and how this thinking led to the foundation of AIORX Technology.
