--- title: "The way that AI is changing software engineering is a... description: Dave Farley discusses how AI is transforming software development by shifting focus from writing code to specifying requirements and verifying outcomes. He... canonical: https://daily.dev/posts/the-way-that-ai-is-changing-software-engineering-is-a-bigger-shift-than-object-oriented-programming-gnwskm7qk twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:site: @dailydotdev og:type: website og:site_name: daily.dev og:title: "The way that AI is changing software engineering is a bigger shift than object-oriented programming, the internet, and Agile together.", says Dave Farley, author of Continuous Delivery and Modern Software Engineering. | daily.dev og:description: Dave Farley discusses how AI is transforming software development by shifting focus from writing code to specifying requirements and verifying outcomes. He... og:url: https://daily.dev/posts/the-way-that-ai-is-changing-software-engineering-is-a-bigger-shift-than-object-oriented-programming-gnwskm7qk og:image: https://api.daily.dev/og/posts/GnwSkM7qk.png og:image:alt: "The way that AI is changing software engineering is a bigger shift than object-oriented programming, the internet, and Agile together.", says Dave Farley, author of Continuous Delivery and Modern Software Engineering. 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 way that AI is changing software engineering is a bigger shift than object-oriented programming, the internet, and Agile together.", says Dave Farley, author of Continuous Delivery and Modern Software Engineering. **[Antonija Bilić Arar](https://daily.dev/sources/ufvojapqsnbhu2ytg8ses)** · [@tonkkatonka](https://daily.dev/tonkkatonka) · 0 upvotes · 0 comments ## Summary Dave Farley discusses how AI is transforming software development by shifting focus from writing code to specifying requirements and verifying outcomes. He argues that teams already practicing continuous delivery, TDD, and BDD see dramatic productivity gains (around 55%), while those with poor practices simply produce bad software faster. The key insight: verification becomes the bottleneck when AI generates thousands of lines of code daily. Farley advocates for specification-by-example approaches and acceptance test-driven development as essential tools for maintaining control and quality in AI-assisted development, emphasizing that fundamental software engineering principles remain unchanged despite the technological shift. ## Full article daily.dev links to this article rather than hosting it. Read it at the original source: ## Similar posts on daily.dev - [The AI Verification Bottleneck: Developer Toil Isn’t Shrinking](https://daily.dev/posts/the-ai-verification-bottleneck-developer-toil-isn-t-shrinking-svmt3qr0j) · The New Stack · 0 upvotes · 0 comments - [The bottleneck isn't writing code anymore. 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