From Coder To Conductor: The Evolving Role Of Developers In The Age Of AI
The CTO Advisor, Tuesday, June 10th, 2025
I recently joined Mitch Ashley, VP of Research at Futurum, and Erik Bethke, CTO of The Futurum Group, for a DevOps Unbound panel on how AI is reshaping what it means to be a developer. Not in some future state-right now.
If you've followed my Zero to Builder series, you know I've been relearning software development, this time with AI as my co-pilot. What once took hundreds of lines of GW-BASIC and late nights is now possible in minutes using LLMs like GPT-4 or tools like Cursor. But this transformation isn't about speed. It's about redefinition.
In fact, I recently published a deeper look at this shift over on DevOps.com: 'Scaling Vibe-Coding in Enterprise IT: A CTO's Guide to Navigating Architectural Complexity, Product Management, and Governance.' That piece breaks down what happens when hobbyist-level experiments start to become enterprise-critical systems-and how CTOs can't afford to be caught flat-footed.