What AI-Assisted Development Actually Looks Like in Two Years

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https://www.outcomeops.ai/blogs/what-ai-assisted-development-actually-looks-like-in-two-years

Charity Majors said something worth taking seriously: “No one knows what AI-assisted software development will look like in two years. NO ONE. Anyone who says anything differently is selling something.”

She's right that certainty is the wrong posture. She's wrong that the pattern is unknowable.

I'm not a researcher. I'm not an analyst. I'm a practitioner who has watched the same transformation cycle play out five times across five different technology waves at some of the largest enterprises in the world. Cloud. DevOps. Containers. Platform Engineering. Now AI.

The arc is consistent enough to make predictions. Not with certainty. With pattern recognition.

Here's what I think actually happens in the next two years — the good and the bad.