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World Congress 2025 • Aug 20, 2025 • Session details

The End of Software as we know it

Paul Adams

The traditional PM-designer-engineer triad is obsolete. To survive the AI shift, teams must abandon rigid specs, embrace chaotic prototyping, and let multidisciplinary generalists ship production code.

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