How AI shrank a 40-person PwC advisory team to just six

Modernizing a fragmented legacy software system for the cloud was once an 18-month endurance test for a team of 40 PwC Australia consultants. However, in one example completed this year, the company compressed the upgrade into a 90-day sprint using a team of just six professionals equipped with artificial intelligence tools.

The team used 18 AI agents — programs that can perform tasks with minimal supervision — to gather business requirements, create “artifacts” including code and documentation, and run tests.

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