Five trends redefining software development from ThoughtWorks retreat
Martin Fowler distills the second Future of Software Development Retreat into five headline findings: verification now outpaces code generation, a new "harness engineering" discipline emerges, apprenticeship pipelines are collapsing, executive‑engineer expectation gaps pose major risk, and legacy modernization offers the clearest near‑term ROI. The notes also flag LLM misuse and citizen‑developer security concerns.