I know you usually expect to read a high quality tech blog here. Most of my blogs are. But not this one. This time I want to talk about something that’s been bothering me, my friends, community — and from what I see, way beyond the BC world.
I recently had a conversation with a friend. He asked me two simple questions:
- If I openly share how I work with AI, will I lose my advantage?
- If everyone can build faster now, what will make me still valuable in two years?
I asked myself the same questions. I hear them around. So I decided to reflect and structure my thoughts. And yes, AI helped me with that.
So by continuing reading you agree to read a partly AI-generated post. Partly — because the thoughts are 100% mine, the story-line is 100% mine, AI just typed it. And honestly… that’s kind of what this whole post is about.
Let me start with fire
Someone, somewhere, sometime discovered fire. Maybe lightning. Maybe pure accident. Doesn’t matter. What matters is — one person, or a small group, figured out how to use it and how to make the process repeatable.
Suddenly their family could eat cooked food. Stay warm. Stay safe. They had a massive advantage over everyone else. What if they kept it to themselves? Maybe they stayed ahead. For a while. But eventually — nothing. The fire would die with them. No village. No civilization. No us.
Instead, something different happened. They shared it. Maybe willingly, maybe not. But the fire spread. And what happened to those first people who knew how to make fire? My best guess — they became the heads of the village. The trusted ones. The people everyone came to. Not despite sharing — because of it.
We see the same pattern over and over. Metal. Electricity. The printing press. The internet. Every breakthrough technology starts with a tiny group of people. But the ones we remember — the ones who mattered — were the ones who spread the knowledge.
My Passion Has Always Been the Same
Throughout my career, my passion was simple: learn how things work and share with others. Did people who learned from me replace me? No. Every single time, the opposite happened.
When I built CentralQ.ai in early 2023 — the first AI-powered search for the Business Central community — nobody had anything close to it. I could have quietly used it. Kept it private. Benefited from the advantage.
Instead, I opened it to the community.
Today, CentralQ has answered close to a million questions from BC developers and consultants worldwide. It became a resource for the whole ecosystem, not just for me. Did I lose by doing that? Let AI answer for me.
This screenshot is not to promote my skills. I’m sure you know me, if you are reading this. It’s to show you the power of sharing.
Same story when I got early access to agentic coding tools in Cursor about two years ago. Yes, they were on very early phase, but even with that I immediately became more effective than the rest of the community. I used that window to learn — what works, what doesn’t, how to cook it.
And then instead of quietly enjoying the advantage, I went on stage at BC TechDays with AJ and shared everything I had learned. I believe it was the first time agentic coding for AL was publicly shared in our community.
Did I lose after that? Companies started coming to me specifically because I was the person who understood agentic development. “If he talks about that, that mean he understand it.” Right? Well, not always of course, but seems not in this case 🙂
What Happened Next
After that session, other community members took the fire and ran with it.
Stefan, Jeremy, Waldo, Torben and others — they built incredible tools: AL MCP, BC Code Intelligence MCP, Telemetry Buddy MCP… (full list and links in my MCPs for AL Vibe Coding blog post)
These tools dramatically improved what’s possible with agentic AL development — for everyone. If the people who built them had kept them private, they’d be 3x–5x more effective than the rest of the community. Maybe more.
But they chose to share. And the whole village got fire.
Did they become less valuable after that? Hell no. They earned a new kind of reputation.
Cooking With Fire
I don’t talk about real projects often. But this one I want to share.
A customer came to us with a problem. They had a large ISV partner — experienced people, years of deep knowledge in their vertical, a highly customized C/AL solution built over many years. That partner couldn’t migrate it to the extensions model. Not in timeline customer requested.
They came to us instead. We reworked the whole thing in 3 months. Clean extensions, 90% test coverage, full documentation, live on time, zero issues post-go-live.
The tools we used? Available to everyone. The knowledge we applied? Publicly shared. The difference wasn’t the secret. There was no secret. The difference was knowing how to use it. Knowing how to cook with fire.
That, for me, was the first real proof that in the right hands, with the right knowledge, this level of performance is now genuinely possible.
So Should I Teach Others?
That’s the question. If others become as efficient — will I still be needed?
Sorry for not given you a ready answer. I don’t know. Future will tell.
But it’s not a question for me anymore.
I know how to make fire. And I want to teach others how to make it too. Not because I’m naive about competition. But because I’ve seen — repeatedly, across 20 years — that the people who share knowledge end up winning. Individually and as a community. The BC ecosystem getting smarter benefits everyone in it. Including me.
That’s why I’m running a workshop Agentic Coding for AL at BC TechDays 2026. Day 2 has only 4 spots left. Day 1 is filling fast.
And Jeremy — is running Agentic Development That Scales workshop, sharing what he’s learned about configuring AI development for teams. Jeremy’s is filling fast too.
Pick one. Or both — that’s what two days are for.
Your Choice
Not everyone will take the fire. And that’s okay.
It’s a personal choice now. We — me, Stefan, Waldo, Jeremy and others — already made ours. Now it’s yours. You can keep cooking food the old way. Nobody is forcing you. It still works.
But if you do take it — share it. Pass it on. That’s how villages become civilizations. Spread the fire. Don’t keep it to yourself. You will win if the community wins.
Keep my words. 🔥
