{"id":4909,"date":"2025-10-17T02:00:02","date_gmt":"2025-10-17T02:00:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/cis\/?p=4909"},"modified":"2025-10-17T02:05:53","modified_gmt":"2025-10-17T02:05:53","slug":"cis-seminar-series-davide-taibi-on-the-future-of-ai-augmented-software-development","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/cis\/cis-seminar-series-davide-taibi-on-the-future-of-ai-augmented-software-development\/","title":{"rendered":"CIS Seminar Series: Davide Taibi on AI and Software Development"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>As part of the CIS Seminar Series, Professor Davide Taibi presented an engaging talk on Monday, October 6, titled <em data-start=\"224\" data-end=\"294\">\u201cSoftware Developers are Dead\u2014Long Live the AI-Augmented Developer!\u201d<\/em> The event was followed by drinks at M\u0101noa Gardens. Mahalo to everyone who joined us on a rainy Monday evening!<\/p>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"556\" src=\"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/cis\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/49F8200F-F19E-4764-9612-6F69E0B65170_1_105_c-1024x556.jpeg\" alt=\"October First Monday in Hamilton 3F\" class=\"wp-image-4913\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/cis\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/49F8200F-F19E-4764-9612-6F69E0B65170_1_105_c-1024x556.jpeg 1024w, https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/cis\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/49F8200F-F19E-4764-9612-6F69E0B65170_1_105_c-300x163.jpeg 300w, https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/cis\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/49F8200F-F19E-4764-9612-6F69E0B65170_1_105_c-768x417.jpeg 768w, https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/cis\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/49F8200F-F19E-4764-9612-6F69E0B65170_1_105_c.jpeg 1204w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Abstract:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>What if the future of software development doesn\u2019t need developers as we know them? As GenAI infiltrates every stage of the software development lifecycle, the traditional role of the software developers\u2014meticulously designing systems from requirements to deployment\u2014is being unbundled, redefined, and partially outsourced to machines. And yet, the industry is far from ready.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>This talk presents a bold vision of the\u00a0<b>AI-Augmented Developer<\/b>: a hybrid thinker who doesn\u2019t write blueprints alone but designs with AI, using it not as a tool\u2014but as a creative partner, a challenger, a simulator of trade-offs. Drawing from two cutting-edge empirical studies, including a multivocal review of GenAI in software development and a forward-looking survey of industry leaders, we\u2019ll confront hard truths: AI is already doing architectural documentation, detecting antipatterns, and even suggesting design alternatives. But it\u2019s also hallucinating, biasing decisions, and eroding accountability.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>If we don\u2019t rethink our roles, methods, and mindset, software architects risk becoming passive validators of AI output rather than strategic designers of complex systems. The good news? There is still time to adapt\u2014but only if we embrace a future where development is not less human, but more profoundly human because of our collaboration with machines.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Bio:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Davide <span class=\"il\">Taibi<\/span>&nbsp;is a Full Professor of Software Engineering at the University of Oulu, where he leads the M3S Cloud research group. His research focuses on empirical studies in cloud-native systems, with particular attention to software engineering, software architecture, and the role of Generative AI in modern development practices.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>He has published extensively on these topics and is actively involved in both academic and industrial collaborations. His recent work explores how AI is influencing architectural design and what this means for the skills and responsibilities of future software architects.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As part of the CIS Seminar Series, Professor Davide Taibi presented an engaging talk on Monday, October 6, titled \u201cSoftware [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":4910,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[38],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-4909","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","6":"hentry","7":"category-news-events","9":"post-with-thumbnail","10":"post-with-thumbnail-large"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/cis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4909","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/cis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/cis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/cis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/cis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4909"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/cis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4909\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4918,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/cis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4909\/revisions\/4918"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/cis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4910"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/cis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4909"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/cis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4909"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/cis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4909"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}