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Is a codeless future an illusion?

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By Richard Gall Verified
| Thoughtworks
A recurring prophecy has echoed through the corridors of software engineering for decades: the death of source code. In the early days, it was argued COBOL would allow business executives to write software directly. In the 1980s, fourth-generation languages (4GLs) promised to eliminate professional programmers entirely. In the 1990s and 2000s, CASE tools and Executable UML swore that we would draw diagrams, and the code would vanish beneath a layer of visual constructs.
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Ephemeral testing environments: Sometimes, you just need to kill your darlings

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By Richard Gall Verified
| Thoughtworks
Why are ephemeral environments needed? “As you continue to expand and things get older and you have more developers coming on,” explains Thoughtworks’ Effy Elden, “you start to run into tensions with having a single test environment that everyone deploys to before production because you deploy something there to test it.” In these instances, Elden goes on to say, the test environment becomes a bottleneck.
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How do we put the human at the center of AI?

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By Richard Gall Verified
| Thoughtworks
TF: AI project failures all have one thing in common — they prioritized speed over diligence and guardrails. I have three potential starting points to avoid more failures: Embed “right human, right time.” Be diligent about setting up trigger points and decision nodes for when involving the “human-in-the-loop” is mandatory, especially when it comes to regulatory, ethical and commercial risks. Bring in cross-functional expertise.
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