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Initial Reaction to "The Future of Software Development" TWSoftwareDev26

The author shares observations from the TWSoftwareDev26 retreat, reflecting on discussions about the future of software development, including trends, challenges, and insights gained from conversations with industry peers.

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- This post reacts to "The Future of Software Development" (TWSoftwareDev26), a thought leadership piece by ThoughtWorks (a global tech consultancy known for publishing trend reports and the "Technology Radar"). - The author (blogger Herlein) pushes back against a growing narrative in the industry: that AI coding assistants (like GitHub Copilot, Cursor, Claude Code) are making traditional software engineering skills — architecture, testing, debugging — less important. - Herlein argues this is dangerously wrong: the more AI generates code, the *more* critical human judgment becomes for reviewing, structuring, and verifying that output. AI lowers the cost of writing code but does not reduce the need for deep technical understanding. - The piece also critiques ThoughtWorks' optimism about "citizen developers" (non-programmers building apps with AI), warning that without engineering rigor, teams will produce unmaintainable systems. - This belongs to an ongoing debate in tech: as LLMs improve, is software engineering being "democratized" or is its true value shifting from writing code to curating and validating AI-generated code?

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Initial Reaction to "The Future of Software Development" TWSoftwareDev26

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