Developers build the best tools for developers – and are now defanging the AI menace
AI and ML
Fear and even grief are natural reactions to machines that do your job. The next reactions – acceptance and innovation – are more useful
Forty years ago, while working for a tiny subsidiary of a gigantic telco, I stumbled through pre-Git source code management and tried to avoid explosively devolving into a mess of conflicts after every merge. Thankfully, modern practices make it possible to work in massive, distributed teams, swarming around a codebase, working independently toward a collective goal.
That sounds a lot like what we're heading toward with agents, and here it touches a nerve: nearly everyone in software engineering feels a deep terror as an invasion of agentic systems sweep all before them.
Now that Stack Overflow has gone agent-first, what's left for us meatsacks? Shoulder-to-shoulder with the flesh-based cohort most immediately under the pump at a conference called AI Engineer Melbourne,...
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