AI-assisted development has pretty much become the standard manner of software creation, especially greenfield projects or prototyping advancements and replacements. That is affecting how, and what, we consider the importance, or focus, is for software engineers. The balance between speed and what you create, or control, has fundamentally altered.
We, at Shadowcat Systems, have become firm advocates for maintaining what we call ‘Code Authority’. By which we mean the understanding that while AI can accelerate delivery, provide multiple options, and allow a greater freedom in testing choices, it should never replace human oversight or the delivery of those choices. A person must own the code, even if a machine mostly wrote it.*
Shadowcat helps organizations navigate this evolving landscape using the benefits of modern AI; leveraging its strengths without sacrificing ownership, and therefore retaining governance. We believe that to build trust you need to understand exactly what your code is doing.
Are you effectively managing your AI use? Or is the silicon in control? Let’s talk about regaining ownership over your software in the whole journey from design to production.
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* There’s a lot to debate about whether an AI actually writes anything since it is just statistical relationships and probabilistic vectors, but some would argue that humans themselves merely distill and regurgitate knowledge they have absorbed and we all stand on the shoulders of some giant somewhere.
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