Generative AI TuringBots speed and improve software development. But the siren song of generative AI to build and deploy applications in seconds challenges tech executives to identify realistic opportunities. Short-term, TuringBots will assist all dev roles. Midterm, TuringBots will become better peers to humans and more accurate. Long-term, they will become more autonomous with additional reasoning capabilities and human supervision (still), but productivity will reach unimaginable heights.
Hold on, But What are TuringBots?
Forrester defines TuringBots as:
AI-powered software that augments application development and infrastructure and operations (I&O) teams’ automation and semiautonomous capabilities to plan, analyze, design, code, test, deliver, and deploy while providing assistive intelligence on code, development processes, and applications.
TuringBots can support product development teams and their developers through most stages of the software development lifecycle: from analysis design to deployment.
Two of the TuringBots category have a broader vendor and product eco-system, and that organizations have been and are either experimenting more with and / or are building real apps and products. One of them is the Coder TuringBot that can assist developers in generating code from “prompts” and or “comments” and the other one is the Tester TuringBot that can help test smarter, supporting test automation and more.
Ok They Are About Productivity and Creativity, But…..
If you are a technology executive you should care about TuringBots since they are among Forrester’s Top Ten Emerging Technologies For 2023 that will impact enterprises technology choices now and in the next few years. However, while TuringBots are an important game changing technology, they increase teams productivity, and increase teams’ creative thinking by freeing them up from repetitive and boring work, challenges and risks are behind the corner too. So technology executives have to think hard about what are their opportunities and key use cases to employ this emerging technology, what guardrails should they put in place to prevent IP loss, or insecure and poor quality products from reaching production? What will the impact on skills be, and will TuringBots effect in some way future development resources planning and management needs? If you want some answers and more to these questions join us at the T&I Forum in London this year.
Join Us At T&I Forum to hear more.
At 2023 Forrester’s T&I Forum in London, you’ll have many opportunities to dive into Generative AI for Development. In my keynote plus fireside chat with guest speaker Mark Burnett, Head of Innovation Group from G-Research, we will share take aways for Technology executives to learn how to plan an adoption roadmap of TuringBots and align practices, governance, and benefits. Gain more about TuringBots, attending also the track session with Martha Bennett and I where we will deliver Will Generative AI TuringBots replace your teams in building better software faster? Points, Counterpoints, and the truth. I am looking forward to see you all there. If you can’t come, reach out with a Guidance Session, a inquiry, a Briefing with me or an an email at dlogiudice@forrester.com if you would like to dig deeper on the Future of software development with TuringBots.
