CommBank’s Lau says AI cuts prototype timelines from months to hours

• Commonwealth Bank management said AI is cutting product development timelines from months to hours, accelerating the path from concept to testable prototypes.
• Technology Lead for Engineering Platforms Helen Lau cited the in-testing CommBank Companion as an example of rapid prototyping in the CommBank app.
• Lau said a multi-agent software tool she built with AI reached MVP in a weekend, versus an estimated 6-9 months manually.
• She pointed to broader productivity gains as more engineers experiment with AI at scale, supported by an internal culture of hands-on testing.

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