AI Is Changing How Enterprise Software Gets Designed and Built | with Kerim Akgonul

AI is transforming how enterprise software gets designed and built. But what happens when AI begins to collapse the lines that separate design, architecture, and build. In this episode, Clay Richardson and Steph Lewis sit down with Pega’s Chief Product Officer, Kerim Akgonul, to explore how AI is shifting the boundary between design and development.Using the analogy of collaboration across a new home architect and new home builder, this conversation unpacks:

• Why design is starting to feel like build
• How AI is collapsing traditional role boundaries
• The rise of the “solution designer”
• Why speed without guardrails creates technical debt
• And what high-fidelity design really means in an AI-first world

AI can generate workflows, screens, and prototypes in seconds. But acceleration doesn’t eliminate the need for architectural clarity.This conversation explores what enterprise teams must rethink as AI reshapes modern software delivery.