“Shift-Left” and AI at DevGeekWeen 2025

Once more, I’ve returned to DevGeekWeek, and I gave a whole seminar on Shift Left. Which shifted to AI pretty quickly

We’ve discussed what is left, and what is right. This was as mixed audiecne of developers and testers, and most of them were there to just open their mind, and here about techniques and mindset. Some of them have already shifted, some were thinking about it.

But everyone wanted to know AI. Everyone is using AI in some way, mostly generating code and tests. They wanted to know how all this magic impacts quality, what we can do to ride the tiger, and finally, where we’re all going.

The future with AI

I recalled a talk I had at PyCon last year. It was with a front-end developer, who told me – all this component development is going away. React, Vue, – all this is going to disappear soon.

I didn’t know what he meant, until I saw Base44 (I saw it before Lovable, but it’s the same idea). Develop whole applications, front end and back end, with a prompt. You want to it blue? ask for it. Move to the right? Ask. No more JSX stuff. No more REST controller stuff. Ask and receive.

So where’s code going? What will developers do?

I’ve said in my “TDD with AI” webinar, that tests are becoming more important than production code. I think it’s more than that.

I feel BDD is reincarnating. Specs are going to rule, and testers are going to create them. Code is going to be left for machines, and a few developers. And I told them.

The testers were more happy to hear this, than the developers. We’ll see about the future. For now, let’s go back to play with our toys. I’ll have more to say about that, and where I think we’re going.

But for now, I had a great time at DevGeekWeek, met a couple of old friends, made new ones. And I’ll see you all same time, next year!

What do you think? Is code really going away? Let me know what you think.