AI Will Transform Software Development—But Not The Way You Expect
Summary
The current generation of AI works by amalgamating existing data, analyzing common patterns and predicting a best-fit solution. AI-assisted code generation can replace rote manual work like setting up authentication, connecting APIs, configuring providers, and creating similar plug-and-play pieces of your applications. And, assuming you choose good tools, AI can do it with fewer errors and automatically apply governance rules, saving you time in debugging and QA. They’re frustrated with cumbersome processes, clunky tools and outdated codebases, and they’re spending too much time waiting for cloud infrastructure to run code. Lately, much attention has been paid to the idea that developers need to spend more time writing code—that’s the crux of the controversial 2023 McKinsey productivity study.