Zum Inhalt springen

root / tags / software-development-lifecycle

#Software Development Lifecycle

3 Fiches

Transformation & Adoption Automatisch geprüfte Übersetzung

AI/works™ by Thoughtworks — Thoughtworks' Agentic Development Platform / "We are doing it again for the AI era"

Launch of **AI/works™**, an **agentic development platform** claimed by **Thoughtworks** to be *"the new standard for building and running industrial-grade systems in the AI era"*. The core pitch is **economic**: *"the old approach made you pay millions to build, run, then pay again to rebuild — AI/works™ ends that routine"*. The platform covers **the entire SDLC** around a central concept, the ***Super Spec*** (a dynamic, unified specification covering architecture, workflows, security, data, UX), with **six capabilities**: Reverse Engineering (legacy → as-is specs), Dynamic Spec Development (raw requirements → Super Spec), Spec to Code (coordinated agents generating testable code), Developer Experience (governed golden paths), Control Plane (agent orchestration with cost transparency, active guardrails, end-to-end lineage), Runtime Ops (continuous monitoring detecting changes, updating the Super Spec, regenerating impacted code). **3-3-3** methodology: 3 days to align the product concept, 3 weeks for the prototype (desirability/viability/feasibility), 3 months for a production MVP. **Constellation Research** recognition: *"changing the economics of enterprise software delivery"* via a *"spec-driven, lifecycle"* approach. Opening tagline: ***"We are doing it again for the AI era"*** — invoking Thoughtworks' XP/CI-CD/microservices heritage. Anti-hype positioning: *"stands on an engineering foundation rather than enthusiasm"*, *"no consultant crowds"*, *"finance can open the bill without switching on emergency lighting"*. Featured partners: AWS, GCP, Azure, Databricks, Snowflake + Claude, OpenAI, DeepSeek, Gemini, Grok + NVIDIA, Groq, Stripe, Spotify, CAST, Cyn DX, Mechanical Orchard.

#Thoughtworks#AI/works#AI works trademark

**Thoughtworks** (auteur collectif corporate, page produit/marketing). Aucun individu cité sur la page. Contexte des figures Thoughtworks pertinentes en arrière-plan : **Martin Fowler** (chief scientist emeritus, *Refactoring*, *Patterns of Enterprise Application Architecture*) · **Rebecca Parsons** (CTO emeritus) · **Birgitta Böckeler** (Distinguished Engineer, *Harness Engineering for Coding Agents*, fiche 2026-04-02) · **Matt Kamelman** (*Service-as-Software*, fiche 2025-12-03) · **Sam Newman** (*Building Microservices*).

Transformation & Adoption Automatisch geprüfte Übersetzung

IA : et si les développeurs disparaissaient ? — Tech & Co Business, Le débat (BFM Business, 05/05)

Televised debate on BFM Business (*Tech & Co Business* program, "The Debate" segment, 17 minutes) with **Rémi Jacquet** (CEO of Cast Software France, founder in 2023 of a think tank of about a hundred CIOs on the impact of generative AI on development, partnership with Cigref / Epita) and **Didier Girard** (CTO and CEO of **SFEIR**, a French IT services company (ESN) of about 1,000 people). Strong theses: *"writing code has become an anti-pattern"* (Girard), AI produces code of higher quality than most engineers and is *"2 to 10× more efficient"* — this is a reality, but the profession is not disappearing. The developer becomes a **conductor / agent manager / arbiter**, 14-day sprints are replaced by one-hour to half-day ***bolts***, the **Pizza Team** (8-10 people) no longer works in the agentic era, a new role is emerging — the ***product engineer*** —, the lifespan of a skill drops from **10 years to 1 year**, and **token** consumption becomes the *fuel* of value creation (NVIDIA anecdote allegedly paying bonuses in tokens, taxi driver metaphor for a driver who doesn't consume gas). SFEIR claims *"1,000 people, production capacity of 10,000"*. On the Cast side: positioning on ***harness engineering*** (deterministic vs probabilistic AI, control and guardrails), aligned with Sylvain Duranton's (BCG X) op-ed in *Les Échos* stating that *"an agent = an LLM + harnesses"*. Historical pivot: 2024 *prompt engineering* → 2025 *context engineering* → 2026 *harness engineering*. Key warning: *"the stronger AI becomes, the more we let our guard down — the more risks there are"* (Jacquet). Pivotal role of HR in the transformation, complete overhaul of the SDLC, recommendation to juniors to solidify software architecture fundamentals (*"code is the score, you need to master the symphony"*).

#BFM Business#Tech & Co Business#televised debate

**Invités** :

Qualität & Sicherheit Automatisch geprüfte Übersetzung

AI in the SDLC: Cutting Through the Hype

AI in the Software Development Lifecycle - Quality vs Speed - Systematic Quality Assurance - AI Journal

#AI in the SDLC#Software Development Lifecycle#Quality Assurance

Edgar Kussberg · AIJ Guest Post