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Published by martinfowler.com (Exploring Gen AI series, incl. Böckeler) (T1 source). The original is at https://martinfowler.com/rachels-ramblings/conductor-developer.html.

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Rachel Laycock, CTO at Thoughtworks, argues software development is shifting from coding-centric productivity gains to a 'conductor' model, where developers orchestrate AI agents while bottlenecks move from code generation toward design, architecture, and verification.

Names the developer-as-conductor shift and traces where delivery bottlenecks now sit, useful framing for anyone rethinking their workflow with agents.

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