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I’m a little hesitant to share an article I’ve written in the company of so many great writers but the past two ETLS conferences have really inspired a bit of a professional renaissance in me and I wanted to get some of my thoughts down about where and how I see our place in the middle of this technological revolution. What help am I looking for? Honestly just conversations with other optimistic people (pessimists are also welcome as long as they are open minded ;) ) I wrote this to capture the conversations I’ve been having with my team members as we barrel ahead on our agentic AI journey and to inspire hope and excitement (the same emotions I felt from day 0 at the vibe coding workshop onwards this year at ETLS) I took some big swings and tried to coin some new terms and I have no idea how or if they will be received but I just couldn’t contain my excitement about this topic at this point and just had to get something out! Thank you to anyone that reads it and I hope you find some value in it! I am so proud to be a member of such an inspiring community and I’m looking forward to talking with you all again! I really hope this slack stays active throughout the year, I love hearing all of your thoughts! https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/dont-fear-automaton-become-architect-continuous-guide-josh-phillips-yh89e?utm_source=share&utm_medium=member_ios&utm_campaign=share_via
Thank you for this article, well done! I left the conference newly obsessed with the role of humans and humanity in software development, and what becomes of the human developer. I appreciate that you're addressing this in parts of this article. I'm thinking a lot about questions like: What skills do we need now, beyond the technology skills? What do humans still do better - when and how is humanness an advantage? What's the role of a developer if we take "writing code" out of the picture? And what happens when developers find that certain skills that they may have written off turn out to be essential? I was already planning to write a https://www.beyondwritingcode.com/ about the people side of being a developer, and AI may be making that more imperative.
Also I stole that picture from @jonathansmart1 I think (sorry Jon it was the only picture I had on my new laptop after taking a screenshot of it from your article, happy to change it if it’s a problem!)