$Evolution of roles in software engineering

Historical Evolution

• The increasing in uncertainty drove each era of software development practices
• Slow feedback loops and expensive computing forced optimization for machines over people
• Agile practices only make sense when iteration is cheap

Understanding Complexity

• Software development is complex, not complicated
• The correct response to complexity is probe, sense, respond
• There are no best practices in complex systems
• Methods, methodologies and mindset

AI Era & Role Convergence

• [[$BuildingsoftwareproductswithAI\parallel$Building software products with AI]]
• Coding with LLMs makes me think more
• Context compression for better code generation
• Do software systems integrating with AI still benefits from good software architecture?
• Agentic AI works better for well know, linear processes
• Agentic design patterns