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   Richard MacManus (ricmac@mastodon.social)'s status on Friday, 09-May-2025 19:21:00 JST Richard MacManus

   I realize there's a lot of AI-skepticism on Mastodon, but I think it's important to track how AI is being used more widely. So I spoke to GitLab's head of Field CTOs Brian Wald about how enterprises are implementing AI technology. Among other things, we discussed whether IT departments allow #VibeCoding, what types of AI #agents enterprises are building, how the #developer role is shifting to an architect-type role, and GitLab's own AI strategy. https://thenewstack.io/the-field-cto-view-ai-vibe-coding-and-developer-skillsets/

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     Eugen Rochko (gargron@mastodon.social)'s status on Friday, 09-May-2025 19:20:59 JST Eugen Rochko

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     @ricmac I’m baffled, this sounds like what software engineering always has been.

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     Richard MacManus (ricmac@mastodon.social)'s status on Friday, 09-May-2025 19:21:00 JST Richard MacManus

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     One trend I thought was notable from the discussion: developers are now acting more like architects, says Brian Wald from GitLab. In the AI era, devs are spending more time on upfront design, defining business logic, and creating high-context environments to guide AI-generated code. “So you become kind of the orchestrators of the code, versus the writers of the code,” he told me.

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     Richard MacManus (ricmac@mastodon.social)'s status on Friday, 09-May-2025 19:50:50 JST Richard MacManus

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     @Gargron I think he was saying that, in enterprises at least, often it was the product manager that defined the business logic, and once that was done it would be passed to the developers to implement. And from my time (long ago, admittedly) working in IT departments, that was mostly how it worked. But now that AI can generate code, developers are being tasked more with business logic and architecture. YMMV I suppose, but that’s a trend a senior Field CTO is observing.