There was a period when companies considered the internet an option. Now think about trying to run your company without it. This is precisely what is happening to software development with AI. Most developers continue to regard AI technologies as merely a way to increase developer productivity — advanced autocomplete, handy in cases when you need to write some boilerplate, perhaps, useful for debugging. But the truth goes far beyond this perception. AI technologies have already started transforming the way software is developed, tested, delivered, and supported. And at a speed no one anticipated. Today’s developers do not simply write their code manually from scratch. They orchestrate systems. The capabilities of AI-based workflows include, but not limited to, API generation, architectural design, vulnerability detection, database optimization, automated testing processes, and legacy code documentation. The best developers do not oppose to these changes. They figure out how to drive them.…