AI and the End of Software Development as We Know It

Past and future technologies and paradigms shifts such as agile, DevOps, low-code, and even AI have been reshaping the software development world. Now generative AI is disrupting it. The software development lifecycle (SDLC) is being accelerated and reimagined as a process happening in real time. Meanwhile, automation of all tasks of the SDLC through TuringBots is empowering both professional coders and citizen developers, totally transforming their experience. Application generation (AppGen) platforms will bring all past and current attempts together in one new world.

And This Is Only the Beginning

Imagine your entire team in a conference room fully equipped with voice, audio, digital boards, and holograms. Product owners, subject matter experts, testers, and developers will join together to collaborate with TuringBots. They'll create graphics and code through integrated development environments that support the SDLC now. Teams will share ideas and information instantaneously on boards that show flows, diagrams, low-code/high-code, or (in 2030-plus) even a visualization using holograms at the center of the meeting table. They'll review it on the fly, check the code where needed, perform a security review, and approve it. And TuringBots agents will autonomously evolve apps in the background. By 2028, the SDLC will become less visible and development will become real-time, with all collaboration and assets generated on the fly, tested, and checked over by a TuringBot that operates behind the scenes.

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The Rise of AppGen Platforms

A new breed of AI-infused platforms enabling fast iteration for top-down and ground-up application generation will rise: AppGen platforms. What you just pictured above is only the start of this new generation of software development tools speeding up software development. We will move from a generation of snippets, siloed usage of AI in SDLC single stages, and dedicated personas with handoffs to a generation of bigger portions of apps becoming full apps in the click of a few buttons with real-time collaboration among the different stakeholders (probably less of them). At Forrester's Technology & Innovation Summit EMEA 2024 in London, I'll share how absurd, realistic, or tactical the usage of AI can be for your software development, along with the implications for your business applications, developers, and everyone else involved in your development teams.

— Diego Lo Giudice, VP, Principal Analyst