The evolution of software development orchestration: current state and an agenda for future research
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In a provocatively titled opinion editorial in the Wall Street Journal – “Why Software is Eating the World” – former Netscape co-founder turned venture capitalist Marc Andreessen enumerated a range...
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The evolving relationship between developers and AI reflects broader industry trends in which developers act less as code authors and more as strategic orchestrators of AI workflows.
“This evolving relationship reflects broader industry trends in which developers act less as code authors and more as strategic orchestrators of AI workflows [25].”
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Section 2.2 says bots increasingly coordinate development and shape developers’ workflows; it also says APIs reduce the need to code functions from scratch. But it does not establish that developers are becoming strategic orchestrators of AI workflows. Section 4.2 instead discusses software agents orchestrating human developers and treats developers’ changing roles as a question for future research. Page numbers were not provided in our copy. (LLM, conf=0.87)
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“This evolving relationship reflects broader industry trends in which developers act less as code authors and more as strategic orchestrators of AI workflows [25].”
- Authors
- Maruping, L. M., & Matook, S.
- Affiliations
- Georgia State University (US)
- The University of Queensland (AU)
- Venue
- European Journal of Information Systems
- Publisher
- Informa UK Limited
- Published
- 2020-09-02
- Volume
- 29
- Issue
- 5
- Pages
- 443-457
- ISSN
- 0960-085X (ISSN-L)
- 1476-9344
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- W3091567686
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- 77
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- Topics
- Physical Sciences › Computer Science › Information Systems › Software Engineering Techniques and Practices
- Physical Sciences › Computer Science › Artificial Intelligence › Advanced Software Engineering Methodologies
- Social Sciences › Sociology and Political Science › Information Systems Theories and Implementation
- Keywords
- software development process, research agenda, future of software development
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