AI's impact on software production systems, according to the CEO of Resolve AI

By McKinsey & Company · July 6, 2026.

This email from McKinsey Technology, sent by Basel Kayyali and Florian Niedermann, the firm's global technology practice leaders, highlights an interview with Spiros Xanthos, CEO of Resolve AI, on how artificial intelligence could transform software deployment, production and monitoring systems.

The body of the email is brief and functions primarily as a promotional summary of a longer piece hosted on McKinsey's site. According to the available text, automating software deployment, production and monitoring systems has historically been a complex challenge for organizations. In the interview, Xanthos explains how AI could improve three key aspects of these processes: reliability, pace, and the workload of the teams responsible for keeping these systems running.

The email does not go into specific details of the conversation —it includes no direct quotes, figures or concrete examples— so it is not possible to expand further on the exact content of the interview without accessing the full article on McKinsey's site.

In addition to the main article, the email suggests two related pieces under the 'Also Consider' section: one on rewiring software delivery for the agentic era ('Rewiring software delivery for the agentic era') and another on the AI revolution in software development ('The AI revolution in software development'). However, no summaries or additional details about these pieces are provided in the body of the email.

In general, this type of content reflects the growing interest of strategic consultancies such as McKinsey in how agentic AI is reshaping software engineering, DevOps and observability practices, an area where specialized startups such as Resolve AI are seeking to position themselves as solutions for automating complex operational tasks.