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Part VI: The Developer as a Person

Development is carried out by people. Part VI treats the competences a developer needs and how they are evidenced, the developer's own mind under AI, and the future of the developer with labels.

Chapter 29 stages a debate and gives the author's labelled projections.

Chapters in this part:

  • Chapter 27, Competences and Developing the Developer, treats competences and developing the developer (all five functions).
  • Chapter 28, The Developer's Own Mind, treats craft, flow, cognitive offloading and identity (D3 Build, D4 Prove).
  • Chapter 29, The Future of the Developer, gives the outlook with labels and stages a debate (all five functions).

Functions in this part. Part VI frames all five functions from the standpoint of the developer as a person.

The thread from the series. Skill erosion and apprenticeship are those of AI Threat, Chapter 14, and AI Operations, Chapter 26; the labelling of outlooks is that of AI Governance, Chapter 22.

What you will learn in this part:

  • Which competences a developer needs and how they are evidenced
  • What studies measured about offloading and skill
  • What is observable, expected and speculation about 2036

Part VII turns from argument to experience.