18th February 2026
LLMs are eating specialty skills. There will be less use of specialist front-end and back-end developers as the LLM-driving skills become more important than the details of platform usage. Will this lead to a greater recognition of the role of Expert Generalists? Or will the ability of LLMs to write lots of code mean they code around the silos rather than eliminating them?
— Martin Fowler, tidbits from the Thoughtworks Future of Software Development Retreat, via HN)
Recent articles
- Live blog: Code w/ Claude 2026 - 6th May 2026
- Vibe coding and agentic engineering are getting closer than I'd like - 6th May 2026
- LLM 0.32a0 is a major backwards-compatible refactor - 29th April 2026