Hi, I'm Eric.
I’m an avid world traveler, photographer, software developer, and digital storyteller.
I help implement the Content Authenticity Initiative at Adobe.
Hi, I'm Eric.
I’m an avid world traveler, photographer, software developer, and digital storyteller.
I help implement the Content Authenticity Initiative at Adobe.
Found on 28 September 2026 via Mastodon 565
via Matt Weagle (@mweagle@hachyderm.io): “Some of these predictions are just observations, they’ve long been true at companies like Amp. Others will take some time to play out.”
Thorsten Ball plants a flag on a set of deliberately provocative predictions: code review and unit tests are already dead, the craft of writing code disappears while the craft of building software matters more, open source in its current form stops making sense, and the terminal gets washed away by tokens. Whether or not you agree, it’s a useful snapshot of what an AI-forward developer believed in late 2026 — and a good list to argue with.
Thorsten Ball - What I believe about the future of software development
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