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Who's Coding Now? - AI and the Future of Software Development

Guido Appenzeller, Matt Bornstein, Yoko Li

Fireside Chat, Interview, Panel

Positioned as a $3 trillion global market following a $200 billion investment surge, the AI coding sector is transforming a workforce of 30 million developers through integrated agents that shift workflows from syntax generation to specification drafting. While industry leaders project productivity gains equivalent to Apple's market value by doubling output efficiency, organizations are adapting to non-deterministic model behaviors by redefining success metrics and enforcing "spec-first" strategies for legacy modernization. This evolution requires a new hybrid of human expertise and structured formal languages to manage hallucination risks, ultimately redefining the developer role from code writer to system architect.