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Martin Fowler: "LLMs Are Eating Specialty Skills"
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Martin Fowler published insights from the Thoughtworks Future of Software Development Retreat: "there will be less use of specialist front-end and back-end developers as LLM-driving skills become more important than the details of platform usage." He questions whether this elevates "Expert Generalists" or whether LLMs simply "code around the silos rather than eliminating them." Domain modeling and DDD become the critical differentiating skills. Aligns with McKinsey's shift toward liberal arts hiring.
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