The software delivery lifecycle has a lot of plumbing. Design hands off to engineering. Engineering hands back questions. Stories get rewritten. Components get rebuilt. Somewhere along the way, the original idea picks up scratches, and the team ships a slightly duller version of what was imagined three months ago.
AI is already changing that. The real shift is structural: AI is dissolving the bottlenecks between discovery, design, and delivery—the handoffs that have always cost teams the most time and fidelity.
That's the argument Bitovi CEO Justin Meyer will make at Config 2026 on June 25 in his talk "AI will upend your process — for the better."
The bottlenecks are the work
Most of what slows a software team down is the work between the work. Translating a design system into code. Translating a user need into a story an engineer can pick up. Translating a Figma frame into a production component without losing the details that made the design good.
We've treated those translations as the price of doing business. You hire more designers, more PMs, more engineers, and hope the translation tax stays manageable.
AI changes the math. When a model can read a design system and generate consistent components against it, the system becomes the contract and the translation becomes near-free. When AI can take research, requirements, and constraints and produce implementation-ready stories, the PM stops being a bottleneck and starts being an editor. When production code can be generated directly from Figma assets, the gap between "this is what we want" and "this is what shipped" collapses.
What teams get back
Speed is the surface-level story. The deeper question is what teams do with the time they reclaim.
Faster validation means you can test ideas with real users before sinking a quarter into building them. Earlier feedback means designers and engineers are reacting to working software, not arguing over Figma comments. And the work that's left — the strategy, the craft, the judgment calls that actually decide whether a product is good — is exactly the work humans are best at.
AI absorbs the mechanical translation work that was crowding out craft in the first place. For teams that adopt it thoughtfully, that's the whole game.
See it in practice
At Config, Justin will walk through concrete examples: how AI supports building design systems, generates implementation-ready user stories, and writes production code directly from Figma assets. If you've been wondering what "AI in the design-to-dev workflow" actually looks like beyond demos and hot takes, this is the talk to catch.
The details:
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Talk: AI will upend your process — for the better
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Speaker: Justin Meyer, CEO, Bitovi
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When: Wednesday, June 25, 11:25–11:45 AM PDT
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Where: Maker Stage, Hall F (Exhibitor Level), Config 2026, San Francisco
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Register here and add the session to your agenda. If you can't make it in person, Figma typically posts recordings after the event.
The teams that redesign their process around AI — instead of bolting AI onto the old one — are going to ship better software with more room for the parts that matter. The next few years belong to them.
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