Software Development

You are not left behind

Reassessing a fear-mongering phrase

Uwe Friedrichsen

17 minute read

Graffiti at a house wall (seen in Porto, Portugal)

How often have you heard a phrase like “If you do not become highly proficient in AI/LLMs/Agentic AI now, you will be left behind!” in recent months? Probably more often than you were able (or willing) to count. And it does not stop there. If we do not immediately learn the stuff as advised by the person uttering such phrases, we will lose our jobs and never get a job again. Our existences will be destroyed. And this will be solely our fault because we did not listen and…

Thoughts on AI and software development - Part 4

Side effect and unresolved questions

Uwe Friedrichsen

20 minute read

Animals made from straw and bast exhibited on a table

In the previous post, we looked at the likely short- and mid-term consequences if Steve’s projection should become reality. We saw a bit disturbed that most likely the only winners of that projection would be the providers of agentic AI solutions and their investors while everyone else would be on the loser side of the game.

Thoughts on AI and software development - Part 2

The real forces that drive markets and decision makers

Uwe Friedrichsen

17 minute read

(Humanized) steel crow sculptures

In the previous post, we looked at Steve Yegge’s post where he made a projection from the vibe coding of today to controlling AI agent fleets in the near future that take over all coding reliably. Pondering this projection as a possible future, we realized that this future is not what we need as our actual problems in software development do not lie in a lack of developer productivity (or to be more precise: developer efficiency) but…