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# Beyond Files: Reimagining writing code in a distributed AI-powered era


- **Date:** Friday, Jul 11, 2025
- **Time:** 15:25–15:35 (10 min)
- **Room:** Airstream 1
- **Event:** World Congress 2025
- **Tags:** ai, productivity

## Description

In 1960s code made the jump from holes in cardboard to digital text on a file system. Can we make another jump? Modern IDEs already hint at the need: all the useful bits work hard to turn text in files into graphs or abstractions. We search, link, build graphs, reformat, and re-model. It's not just IDEs, even humans spend most of their time reading code just to re-model it in their heads.

Let's imagine one possible jump. All functions, classes and statements are distributed abstractions in a graph. Dependencies become fungible instead of hard-wired. Better yet, we can use AI fulfill ad-hoc statement of intentions by summoning new packages into existence. Imagine a possible future where every particle of code is shared and written by countless unknown authors, human or otherwise. Be amazed as we escape dependency hell and make AI a productive yet invisible collaborator.

## Speaker

### [Brian Graham](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/@brian-graham)

Independent Consultant @ Building Better Teams


## Related talks at this congress

- [Leapter: The Reinvention of Software Development? A Future Built On AI Generated Code.](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/events/world-congress-2025/sessions/581-leapter-the) — Robert Werner
- [New AI-Centric SDLC: Rethinking Software Development with Knowledge Graphs](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/events/world-congress-2025/sessions/901-new-ai-centric-sdlc) — Gregor Schumacher, Marcel Gocke, Sujay Joshy
- [Beyond the IDE: A new era of agent collaboration](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/events/world-congress-2025/sessions/824-beyond-the-ide-a-new) — Ryan J. Salva
- [Reimagining the Developer Experience: The AI Advantage](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/events/world-congress-2025/sessions/619-reimagining-the) — Anu Bharadwaj, Tobias Schlottke