Fragments: February 13

I’ve been busy traveling this week, visiting some clients in the Bay Area and attending The Pragmatic Summit. So I’ve not had as much time as I’d hoped to share more thoughts from the Thoughtworks Future of Software Development Retreat. I’m still working through my notes and posting fragments - here are some more: ❄ ❄ What role do senior developers play as LLMs become established? As befits a gathering of many senior developers, we felt we still have a bright future, focusing more on architectural issues than the messy details of syntax and coding. In some cases, folks who haven’t done much programming in the last decade have found LLMs allow them to get back to that, and managing LLM agents has a lot of similarities to managing junior developers. One attendee reported that although their senior developers were very resistant to using LLMs, when those senior developers were involved in an exercise that forced them to do some hands-on work with LLMs, a third of them were instantly conve