--- title: The future of software engineering, tokenmaxxing and AI... description: A panel discussion from IBM's Mixture of Experts podcast covering three main topics: the future of software engineering in an AI-driven world, the concept of... canonical: https://daily.dev/posts/the-future-of-software-engineering-tokenmaxxing-and-ai-in-higher-education-smp6hxks2 twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:site: @dailydotdev og:type: website og:site_name: daily.dev og:title: The future of software engineering, tokenmaxxing and AI in higher education | daily.dev og:description: A panel discussion from IBM's Mixture of Experts podcast covering three main topics: the future of software engineering in an AI-driven world, the concept of... og:url: https://daily.dev/posts/the-future-of-software-engineering-tokenmaxxing-and-ai-in-higher-education-smp6hxks2 og:image: https://api.daily.dev/og/posts/sMp6hxKs2.png og:image:alt: The future of software engineering, tokenmaxxing and AI in higher education og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 630 og:locale: en --- > ## Documentation Index > Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://daily.dev/llms.txt > Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further. # The future of software engineering, tokenmaxxing and AI in higher education **[IBM Technology](https://daily.dev/sources/ibmtechnology)** · 45 min read · 0 upvotes · 0 comments ## Summary A panel discussion from IBM's Mixture of Experts podcast covering three main topics: the future of software engineering in an AI-driven world, the concept of 'tokenmaxxing' and how to measure AI ROI, and AI adoption in higher education. Panelists discuss how developer roles are shifting from writing code to orchestrating AI agents, verifying outputs, and system-level thinking. The tokenmaxxing segment explores how token consumption is a poor productivity metric and how companies like Uber are struggling to justify AI spend. The higher education segment covers challenges universities face with AI adoption, evolving assessment methods, and IBM's partnerships with universities to build AI literacy curricula. ## Full article daily.dev links to this article rather than hosting it. 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