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AI's impact on software development: Product engineering becomes key

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Laurie Voss, formerly of GitHub, posits that the cost of software development is rapidly decreasing due to AI advancements like GPT-6 Astra and ChatGPT. He argues that the primary remaining challenge in software creation will be understanding user needs, defining them precisely, and ensuring a pleasant user experience. This shift, he suggests, will make product engineering the dominant aspect of software development as the sheer volume of software continues to grow. AI

IMPACT Suggests AI will shift software development focus from coding to product engineering, impacting how software teams operate.

RANK_REASON Opinion piece by a credible voice (former GitHub CTO) on the future of software development driven by AI.

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AI's impact on software development: Product engineering becomes key

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  1. Simon Willison TIER_1 (LT) ·

    Quoting Laurie Voss

    <blockquote cite="https://seldo.com/posts/we-are-all-product-engineers-now/"><p>The cost of writing code collapsed, and the cost of reviewing, fixing and operating it is following, and I'm assuming it gets there. What's left of making software is finding out what people actually …

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