1、 2025,Amazon Web Services,Inc.or its affiliates.All rights reserved.2025,Amazon Web Services,Inc.or its affiliates.All rights reserved.AIM228The Future of Software Craft in the ageof AIClinton HergetField CTO 2025-08-12 2025,Amazon Web Services,Inc.or its affiliates.All rights reserved.Software is a
2、 craft industry,and the craft of writing software will never become obsolete.“FREEMAN DYSONAstrophysicist,“Dyson Sphere”Guy 2025,Amazon Web Services,Inc.or its affiliates.All rights reserved.2025,Amazon Web Services,Inc.or its affiliates.All rights reserved.2025,Amazon Web Services,Inc.or its affili
3、ates.All rights reserved.2025,Amazon Web Services,Inc.or its affiliates.All rights reserved.Pre-AutomationBuilding bespoke cars by hand,one at a time.Post-AutomationManaging the new complexities resulting from the assembly line.Moral of the StoryToday,auto mechanics are more in demand than ever!What
4、 is craft engineering?Consider the“automotive engineer”.2025,Amazon Web Services,Inc.or its affiliates.All rights reserved.New technologies dont make engineers obsolete.WHAT CAN WE LEARN?But they do change the nature of the craft.Pride of creation becomes pride of maintenance.2025,Amazon Web Service
5、s,Inc.or its affiliates.All rights reserved.2025,Amazon Web Services,Inc.or its affiliates.All rights reserved.2025:Not the first time software engineering has been disruptedEach time,the number of engineers increased why?2025,Amazon Web Services,Inc.or its affiliates.All rights reserved.Automation
6、and Abstraction Solve Some Problems But Create OthersEliminating“undifferentiated heavy lifting”makes more things to lift.Every new technology introduces more complexity,which inevitably results in unpredictable behavior.Thus,more engineers are needed to understand the machine and fix it when it bre