Thoughtworks CTO: AI Means We Need Developers More Than Ever

“I saw something on X where somebody had basically said, ‘Look, I vibe coded this app. I don’t need developers. I’m cool.’ And then, within 24 hours, they’d been attacked. It had not all the security vectors covered, or any of the stuff that you need to think about when you know you’re a deep software developer.”

This is how Rachel Laycock, CTO of Thoughtworks, kicked off a very reflective conversation with The New Stack on the future of AI and its current impact on the tech industry.

Soon after, she said that the X user…