How software development is being rewritten
summary
Publications Office rewrites EUR-Lex after a traffic surge by reverse‑engineering requirements with Anthropic Claude on Bedrock and Playwright, extracting 750 user stories then expanding to 1,050 curated stories; developers implement a strangler‑fig pattern, use Gherkin and Cucumber for formal specs, and automate tests with Playwright so TDD runs end to end. Result: new hexagonal, API‑first architecture that improves resilience and platform portability via infrastructure‑as‑code, though multi‑developer agent teams currently reduce velocity.
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chapters (7)
- 0:00Introduction and context
- 1:05System migration challenge
- 3:55AI-driven architecture rewrite
- 7:09Human roles in AI development
- 9:55Developer role evolution
- 11:42Future of AI and human cognition
- 12:58Vendor lock-in and platform engineering
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