From Legacy to Sovereignty: Driving the Future of Insurance through Platform Engineering

Opportunity costs exist across software engineering and board priorities, where attention often goes to AI-driven “flying cars” instead of foundational work. Autonomous cars show that major progress comes after years of building on existing capabilities and gradually moving to new innovations. Many systems still rely on legacy infrastructure, where most organizational value is produced. Moving toward cloud-native transformations and platform development supports efficiency, especially during economic cycles focused on cost reductions. Productivity is being traded for cost reductions, and platform impact is central to improving outcomes while enabling future innovation.

"I feel like there's an opportunity cost happening everywhere, in the software engineering room but also in the board, where everybody seems to be more or less focusing on flying cars, which is an AI driven innovation, if we do the analogy, and actually we should most likely focus on something else where the foundation is being built because this is not a revolution, we saw that coming."

"If you look at autonomous cars, you saw that there are years of actually building on something and then gradually going from one innovation to another innovation, but it's a hard work behind the successes we are seeing today. Unfortunately, I hope you are not dreaming and focusing too much on the flying cars. That's a nice feel. It's sexy. Everyone wants to be there."

"I believe we need to, most of us, and please disagree with me, we are still spending time in the legacy infrastructure where most of our systems are actually working and where most of the money is being printed for our organizations. Probably are now moving already, ideally, move towards cloud-native transformations, and some of us, the luckiest one, probably are already working on the platforms. By platform I mean AI platform, cloud-native platform."

"Everybody has some kind of platform behind the business and behind the work because that's where efficiency comes from. The current economical cycle is all about efficiency. I believe today we are trading productivity for cost reductions, and the impact of platforms has t"

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