Writing code has always been the most time- and resource-intensive task in software development. AI is changing that, and faster than most engineering organizations are prepared for. Tools like Claude Code and Cursor are already handling significant parts of code construction, freeing developers to spend more time on requirements, architecture, and design. But that shift…
I don’t need to tell you that agentic coding is changing the world of software development. Things are happening so quickly that it’s hard to keep up. Internet years seem like eons compared to agentic coding years. It seemed like just a few short weeks ago that everyone very suddenly stopped writing code and let Claude…
Everyone is worried about junior developers. What are all these fresh-faced computer science graduates going to do now that AI is writing all the code? It is a legitimate concern. It wasn’t that long ago that the best advice I could give an early-career person interested in software development was to go to a boot camp. Sure,…
It’s tough out here for a dev/tech writer. Back in the before days (that is, about two months ago), you could always find a variety of topics to write about. “Seven ways to improve your database design,” say. Or “Five things I never do in code.” There were a ton of things that developers were concerned…
There is a growing belief that AI will dramatically reduce the need for experienced software engineers. It won’t. The demonstrations are compelling. We see AI connected to Figma for design context, Jira for tickets, source control for repository history, and CI/CD pipelines for deployment. A feature request goes in, code comes out, and a pull…
Remember the good old days when we had “Internet time”? It was back in the late 1990s, when the dot-coms moved so fast that building businesses and fortunes would take only months instead of years. Seems so quaint now. I think we are now living in AI time. It seems like today, things that used…
