Prasad Kini
VP, Architecture & Engineering · CVC
Two arcs in parallel. One on shipping software with AI. The other on private credit, from inside it. Both operational, not theoretical. Observations from doing the work.
The AI is fast at producing code. The cost is the choices it makes when nobody's steering.
The AI is about twenty percent of what makes it possible. The rest is years of pipeline investment.
An insider-but-outsider explainer: what it really is, why the category exists, and why every firm in it ends up building its own patchwork.