Founder notes: FDEs are the new McKinsey, and legacy firms can't hire AI-native talent
yihui_indie · x · 2026-09-09
The author's takeaways from chats with AI-anxious business owners: FDEs are becoming the 'McKinsey of the AI era' since most firms lack the organizational capacity to transform themselves; young AI-native talent won't join 'legacy' companies, so spinning up a new 00s-only subsidiary is one fix; China's 2B software business is getting squeezed as ByteDance's Doubao and players like Workbuddy move in while enterprises want to build software themselves with coding agents; and owners know their employees all want AI side hustles.
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