What does the future of software engineering look like?
Thoughtworks Technology Podcast

What does the future of software engineering look like?

B1IntermediateJuly 9, 202646 min

At the end of June, Thoughtworks and Martin Fowler convened an unconference-style event in Switzerland with a range of industry leaders. The aim was to reflect on the current challenges and learning around AI assisted and agentic software engineering and discuss the implications for the future — and, most importantly, what actions need to be taken today. To review the event and dive into some of the topics that surfaced, host Ken Mugrage is joined by Thoughtworks colleagues Kief Morris (author of Infrastructure as Code) and Andrew Harmel-Law (author of Facilitating Software Architecture). They highlight some of the ke...

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Hello, everybody, and welcome to another edition of the ThoughtWorks Technology Podcast. My name is Ken McGrage, and I'm very honored to be met with a couple of our ThoughtWorkers from our UK offices. I'll let them introduce themselves.

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Andrew, do you want to go first? Yeah. Hi, Ken. Thanks for having me.

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I'm Andrew Harmer-Law. I'm a tech director, like you said, based out of the London office. And Keith? Yeah, I'm Keith Morris, distinguished engineer, wrote the book Infrastructure as Code, so I'm kind of largely known as that and also based out of the London office.

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