AI Spurs A Cultural Shift In A 1,000-Developer Insurance Company

InnovationEnterprise TechAI Spurs A Cultural Shift In A 1,000-Developer Insurance CompanyByJoe McKendrick,Senior Contributor.Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Joe McKendrick covers how technology moves markets and careersFollow AuthorMay 27, 2026, 10:17pm EDT--:-- / --:--This voice experience is generated by AI. Learn more.This voice experience is generated by AI. Learn more.Developers and agentsgettyGenerative and agentic AI are taking up the lower-level tasks of software development, such as code generation, testing, and documentation, enabling the rapid delivery of software as needed. But can it perform on a massive scale, for a large enterprise? One major insurance company is finding out in an extensive pilot that employs autonomous software development tools.GNP Seguros, Mexico’s largest insurer, is seeing tangible results from its AI-assisted development work, with a five to ten-fold productivity boosts for its development teams.That’s the word from Enrique Ibarra, CIO and head of business transformation for GNP, who has moved into autonomous software development in a big way, enabling its 1,000 developers to ramp up the speed and quality of their deliverables. “We want to change the role of humans in the software development process,” he told Michael Krigsman, host of CXOTalk in a recent interview. “We want to do it to achieve agility. We wanted to test a new generation of tools for generating software in an autonomous way."Between 80% and 95% of development work at GNP is now completed autonomously, Ibarra said. “We accelerated development velocity of between 5X and 10X. The human is not writing the code. The human is directing a platform on how to write the code. That’s a huge change in paradigm.”Moving to autonomous development isn’t just about AI and underlying machines – it’s success depends on the people who will move these projects forward. “You don’t just flip a switch to full autonomy,” said Ibarra. “You have...