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Lagora is the fastest-growing enterprise company in history.
Lagora reached $100 million in Annual Recurring Revenue (ARR) in 18 months.
Jacob Lorentzon asserts that AI has made writing code significantly cheaper, shifting the primary bottleneck in software development from coding to code review and product definition.
Jacob Lorentzon believes the future role of engineers will shift from writing code to higher-level systems design, systems architecture, and meta-engineering to make AI agents more effective.
Over 50% of the code at Lagora is generated by AI tools, with Claude and Cursor being the top two contributors.
Jacob Lorentzon believes the widespread use of AI-generated code creates a new generation of security threats because threat actors can now operate with extreme efficiency.
Jacob Lorentzon predicts that the current form of Integrated Development Environments (IDEs) will die and be replaced by a more graphical, systems-architecture-focused interface.
Jacob Lorentzon predicts Lagora's revenue will be above $250 million by the end of the current year.
Jacob Lorentzon believes building an engineering organization in 2026 will be very different from 2024 due to AI-driven productivity gains.
Jacob Lorentzon predicts that AI code review will become the dominant form of review, removing it as a bottleneck in software development.
Lagora uses AI agents to improve the efficiency of its incident response and postmortem processes.
At Lagora, Product Managers use AI to prototype ideas very quickly, allowing them to test with users before involving engineering.