This uneven impact empowers some domains and users dramatically while leaving others relatively untouched, reshaping software development and routine knowledge work in profound selective ways.
Sikka’s message timed just before the India AI Impact Summit will be held in New Delhi from February 16-20, 2026.
At the summit drawing over 35,000 registrations from over 100 countries, including more than 15 heads of states and leaders like Sam Altman and Jensen Huang — Sikka plans to unpack this further.
The event, hosted by India's Ministry of Electronics and IT, spotlights AI's role in sectors like healthcare and agriculture. But Sikka's focus is bolder: AI isn't just automating; it's democratising expertise.
Vianai's platform, hila, exemplifies this vision. It translates everyday business intent into precise, executable software actions on real data—delivering real-time, conversational analytics that obliterate legacy reporting's slowness and fragmentation.
“Our view is simple: empower business people with AI to do things that experts did before using professional pre-AI tools. This helps them do in real-time what they did before in slow, costly, complex ways, but go far beyond that and do things that simply couldn't be done before,” Sikka wrote.
It's past midnight and my phone has been buzzing all day about the "sudden" disruption AI is bringing to software and services. I have been in these two industries for 28+ years, and in AI since I was a student — so "sudden" makes me smile.
Here's what I'm seeing: the biggest… pic.twitter.com/mB1Qx5BpU4
— Vishal Sikka (@vsikka) February 4, 2026
Sikka announced today that one of the world's largest life-sciences firms has adopted hila, slashing costs and unlocking insights previously impossible.
“Earlier today we signed our latest customer, one of the world's largest life-sciences companies. They are using hila to transform their reporting, their slow, fragmented, expensive reporting, and replacing it with real-time, conversational, accurate analysis. That's the transformation happening right now,” he wrote.
This ties directly to the summit's hot debate: "Has AI taken coding out of programmers’ control?" Sikka argues no — it's redistributing control.
Programmers evolve from code-writers to orchestrators of intent-driven systems, while non-experts gain superpowers. Hila's adoption proves this: in life sciences, it transforms siloed data into dynamic, accurate reporting, bypassing legacy IT bloat.
