Bernard Leong: How AI Is Reshaping Development, Business Models, and Startup Growth – E604

"Let's say you want to do logistics. AI can help with a lot of optimisation, specifically with complex models. The question is, should you only use AI for search? No, you should use it to optimise freight and path costs, factoring in tariffs. I had to do a routing, and it turns out O1 and O3 reasoning engines are extremely good at this. I did a demo for a retail business—they gave me all their constraints, and ChatGPT generated a highly optimized path that matched exactly what their experts expected. They said, 'That's correct.'" - Bernard Leong, founder of Dorje AI and host of Analyse Asia

"What AI has done is it destroys the ERP. First, traditional ERPs like Oracle and SAP require you to conform your business processes to their logic. With generative AI, you don’t need to—you can customize everything through code generation. The new business model should allow every user in the company to use the app. With proper access controls, finance handles the accounting, and everyone else should not have access to the company’s P&L charts. Access control remains a very human responsibility." - Bernard Leong, founder of Dorje AI and host of Analyse Asia

Bernard Leong, founder of Dorje AI and host of Analyse Asia, joins Jeremy Au to explore how AI is transforming software development, business models, and professional roles across Southeast Asia. They break down why dev houses are losing ground, how AI accelerates coding and reshapes team structures, and why traditional SaaS and education models must evolve. Bernard shares how he replaced an outsourced dev team using AI tools, the dangers of hallucinated code libraries, and his vision for a new enterprise software model powered by prompt engineering and cloud-based trust.