07 Tech Trend

Better software development and quality will emerge from platforms, collaboration, and help from AI

Software development will change dramatically in 2024 as organizations “shift left” and adopt GenAI, such as LLMs, to augment or replace human capabilities. A McKinsey study showed that GenAI-based tools can speed up common developer tasks such as documenting, writing, and optimizing code. As we move into 2024, programmers assisted by GenAI will spend less time counting lines of code and looking up library functions, and more time working with customers and removing obstacles. Visionary software developers will embrace platforms, collaboration – and even a little help from AI – to spend more time on solving problems and responding to changes.

They will also use platform capabilities such as CNAPP, CSPM, and CWPP to combat tool sprawl, streamline workflows, and centralize their toolkit. They will automate operations with AI to speed up testing, handling errors, and boosting delivery timelines. Collaboration tools and AI assistants will help developers tackle the complexities of security, observability, and infrastructure. They will use AI-derived insights and intelligent automation to navigate components, protocols, and tools. We believe that human judgment should always be involved in AI decisions and that AI should augment human decision-making, not replace it. We will see humans providing checks and balances to ensure that AI is fair, unbiased, and aligned with ethical and moral values.

In 2024, software engineers and security teams alike will stop simply talking about platform and tool consolidation. Instead, they’ll embrace modern, converged platforms like CNAPP, along with collaboration, and AI as their allies in the software development lifecycle.

Shannon McFarland, Vice President of Developer Relations