Developers, Reinvented

August 11, 2025

Illustration of a girl in a red dress building a wall of colorful toy blocks that spell “REINVENT YOURSELF.”

A vital shift is underway in software development, one that redefines how we build, but also who we are as developers. In recent interviews we spoke with 22 developers that already use AI tools heavily in their workflow, and learned how they got there, how their craft has changed, and where they see things going.

Source: Developers, Reinvented

Let’s start by acknowledging that this is from the CEO of GitHub who clearly has a huge investment in developers using AI as part of their development process. And this is a very small sample size that Is selected from those most enthusiastic about the use of large language models in that process.

But I do think there are some valuable insights in this that might help people chart their own evolution with working with these technologies. Some of the insights certainly reflect my own experience of working with large language models over the last three years or so as a software engineer.