AI maturity levels - understanding the software engineering disruption
The last 2 to 3 years have been a whirlwind of disruption in Software engineering due to the impact of AI. I was seeking about a way to represent an "ai maturity" scale to make sense of the changes and I think this video based on this article from Dan Shapiro is a good representation. From these I created a graphic which represents visually key points as I understand it. Remember about 2 or 3 years ago when you first used copilot in vscode? the predictive typeahead...pretty cool eh. Then we all moved on to cursor and its much better typeahead. Btw what a great acquisition by cursor to buy Supermaven code completion in 2024 . I believe it more than repaid their investment given cursors since skyrocketed valuation. And then came ai chat for code gen. At the time codegen quality was low e.g. "write tests for function xyz". It used to get maybe 30% and then you finished the rest. Then we added rules to make the codegen better (we added 1000s of lines of rules for diff...