Conference
October 05–09, 2026, Antwerp
Devoxx Belgium: BUILD, AGENTS+DEBUG
FROM DEVELOPER TO BUILDER
Slide Deck
Recording
Published on the Devoxx youtube channel:
Impressions
Abstract
AI is having a huge impact on our software development teams - nobody is sure how the role of a developer will evolve, and Simon and Katie don’t have the perfect prediction either!
Now that our teams have ever more capable coding assistants working around the clock, we are seeing “new” bottlenecks appear around value and trust questions. In response to this, we’re seeing organizations create new flavors of engineering roles, move down to one-pizza-teams, move to product owners and their AI wrangler (a one-pizza-slice team?), or even build factory lines.
This is not the first time the way we approach software teams has changed: we’ve gone from silos and super specialization to cross-functional Scrum teams and 2-pizza teams; from T-shaped and M-shaped professionals to full-stack, full-lifecycle, DevSecFin…Ops, value streams, Team Topologies, and more. We’ve added all kinds of coaches and then removed them again.
So who is invited to the pizza party of the future? Who makes decisions, who takes responsibility, what new and old roles and skills will be needed? And who is no longer welcome? We’ll take a look at what some of the friendlier agile critics from the past can warn us about. We will see how their takes can help us move to a more value-oriented future with agents and humans collaborating on user needs.
Further Reading
We are putting together a write up of all* the rabbit holes and materials we encountered during the talk creation on substack:
