As AI-powered tools increasingly automate tasks like code generation, bug detection, and optimization, software engineers fear their roles may shift away from hands-on development toward higher level oversight, reducing the need for deep programming expertise. However, this shift also presents opportunities for engineers to evolve their skill sets, focusing more on AI integration, data-driven decision-making, and managing complex systems, thus staying relevant in an AI-augmented future.

Our guest on today’s Steering Engineering Podcast, Cat Hicks, discusses key findings and insights from her research, including a set of thriving factors for software engineering leaders to promote and anti-thriving factors to avoid.

AI-augmented software engineering and practices are becoming common as more companies pilot them. However, the differentiating effects of AI is based on the skill sets of the engineers using them. In today’s episode of the Steering Engineering Podcast, we talk to Dave Micko about how software engineering leaders are trying to make AI-augmented engineers move from ideation to value creation.

Dave Micko is a Senior Director Analyst in Gartner’s software engineering leadership research group. Dave helps software engineering leaders with practices, methods and patterns for effective software engineering.

In this special episode of Gartner’s Steering Engineering Podcast series, we sit down with Howard Dodd to discuss some highlights from this year’s Gartner Applications Summit keynote, featuring a novel approach to AI and to managing its impact on our organizations.

Howard Dodd is a Senior Director, Analyst in Gartner’s software engineering practice. He helps software and senior technology leaders create strategies to manage and reduce technical debt while modernizing their enterprise applications and systems. He specializes in integrating concepts from enterprise architecture, software development, application architectures and software economics into application. Recommended Reading has moved out of the Google Doc canvas. Please use the Add-On or the Item Detail page to edit your Recommended Reading.