Can we get rid of developers? Is ‘Specification’ the new superskill?
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“Can we get rid of developers?” - this is a question I keep hearing quite often in discussions over all sorts of Generative AI topics. There is a lot to unpack here, with lots of emotions on all sides of the discussion.
If we take a look through the conversations under LinkedIn posts, we can find a few groups of people: • LLM enthusiasts, who claim they can build entire systems through vibe coding, by specifying what they want, • Sceptics that state that these tools are far from being useful and precise, • Users, who use LLMs with more or less success for various tasks and topics.
The truth, as usual, is probably something in the middle. In this episode of Loosely Coupled: “Can we get rid of developers? Is ‘Specification’ the new superskill?” we’ll dive into this topic and try to make sense of various claims stated by various sources. Joining us on this topic is Swen-Helge Huber, Senior Director with the Office of the CTO @ Solace. Together we will discuss if and why ‘drafting specifications’ might be the new super skill
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Swen-Helge HuberSenior Director with the Office of the CTO at Solace
Karol SkrzymowskiHost / Integration Architect
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- Karol
Good morning, good afternoon, and good evening, everybody, and welcome to another episode of Loosely Coupled, brought to you by BridgingTheGap.eu.com.
- Karol
My name is Karol Skrzymowski and I'll be your host tonight, and I hope everybody has something nice to drink.
- Karol
Well, I got my beans finally, so now I have coffee, not like last week where I was kind of dry.
- Karol
So today, today we're having a, let's say, slightly controversial topic, can we get rid of developers?
- Karol
I think that's a question that a lot of people in the industry are asking or trying to answer, especially the business, whoever the business is, right?
- Karol
So they're trying to figure out, can we get rid of developers?
- Karol
And to talk about this today, we actually have somebody from the audience this time around because Swen-Helge Huber is a silent viewer of our live stream.
- Karol
He's been sitting there somewhere in the background cooking dinner nearly every Wednesday, just looking at the stream and listening into.