Thorsten Ball predicts that AI will render human code review and unit tests largely obsolete, shifting the developer's role from writing code to solving business problems and architecting systems. He argues that most future bugs will stem from wrong requirements rather than implementation errors, and that open source as we know it will need rethinking with 'artificial eyeballs' taking over.
Background
Thorsten Ball is a software engineer known for building the Elixir Phoenix framework and writing technical books. This post compiles predictions originally shared on X about AI's transformative impact on software development practices.
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- Lobsters
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- Sep 28, 2026 at 07:37 AM
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