Bombos teamBy Lou Baudoin · July 2026
I have always marveled at people’s gift for shaping the world around them to match their vision. A gardener plants tomatoes to snack on and flowers to admire. A furniture maker saws, planes and cuts wood until the table that used to live only in his mind becomes real.
The most beautiful part is that we do not do it alone. The architect designs a skyscraper, and then the contractor gets to work building it. Because everyone brings different ideas, different skills and different motivations, a vision too big for one person becomes real anyway. That inspires me: people putting in the work to make other people’s dreams come true.
Tools that make other tools possible
One of the most remarkable ways this happens is an indirect one, where people help each other not with hands or expertise, but with tools that strengthen creative ability. The furniture maker cannot make his own saw, and the architect could never master the complexity of a skyscraper without software built by a complete stranger. That stranger is a developer who has never designed a building himself, and without whom that tower would not stand.
Not all tools are equal in what they make possible. The architect’s software is powerful. Without it, a building this complex could never become real, because no person holds thousands of structural dependencies in their head. But even that pales next to the computer it runs on. That computer does not just make this one piece of software possible, it makes a thousand others possible too. That is what the developer does: he sits between the computer and the architect, turning general potential into something one profession can build on. The tool with the biggest impact is the tool that makes other tools possible.
Whoever gains power has to learn to think differently
More and more tools keep arriving, which gives us more and more possibilities, but adopting them does not happen by itself. Give an architect from the year 1900 his software, and he will not understand why he should define a wall instead of drawing it. The developer had to make that same leap, from the other side: he could only start once he stopped seeing a drawing and started seeing a wall as something with properties, connections and rules. Both gained power, and both had to learn to think differently. This happens more often. Whatever makes the most possible also demands the most adaptability.
Fortunately, there are countless ways to adapt the tool to the user too, which makes the transition easier for the user. This often happens by using language people are already familiar with. To lower the barrier, the developer chose the same symbols and the same hatching that people used to draw by hand on paper. He could have done it differently; technically, it would not have mattered. He did it because he wanted the architect to feel at home.
Nobody ever chose Harry from accounting
But that was still a choice, and a choice made in advance. The developer chose one profession and one way of working. The architect got lucky: his profession is large enough that someone bothered. Nobody has ever bothered to digitize Harry from accounting’s sticky-note system, no matter how well it works for him.
AI is a tool
Now we are living through a remarkable moment. A tool is being built, and is still being built, with unmatched potential. Something that can give everyone access to encyclopedic knowledge, that lets everyone build their own software, and that lets everyone break down the most complex and nuanced situations and come up with a fitting response. I am talking, of course, about AI.
And this is also how I see AI: as a tool. One with endless potential, but a tool all the same. I leave the sci-fi stories about AI taking over the world to Silicon Valley. Like anything new, especially something with this much impact, it does ask users for some adaptability. Working with AI is very different from working with other tools, and you have to think about your problems differently if you want to solve them with AI.
Fortunately, here too there is a way to adapt the tool to the user. In fact, that possibility is bigger than ever. Where the developer had to choose who he served, AI does not have to make that choice. It is flexible by nature, so it can adapt to every user. Not a hundred architects who all have to learn the same program, but a hundred workers who adapt to the particular taste and the unique circumstances of every architect individually. And not just the architect, who got lucky that someone chose him, but just as much the installer, the practice manager, and of course Harry from accounting.
That is why Bombos
This does not happen by itself either. Someone has to teach that tool how you work, and someone has to make sure it comes to you instead of waiting for you to figure out what to ask. That is why I started Bombos. Because I believe everyone should be able to use this remarkable tool. Because you are only truly empowered once the tool is adapted to you and speaks your language. So that everyone gets the power to shape the world according to their own vision.