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I host two podcasts, Software Engineering Daily and Software Huddle, and often appear as a guest on other shows. Promoting episodes—whether I’m hosting or featured—helps highlight the great conversations I have, but finding the time to craft a thoughtful LinkedIn post for each one is tough. Between hosting, work, and life, sitting down to craft a thoughtful LinkedIn post for every episode just doesn’t always happen.

The emergence and growing adoption of generative AI and the agreement to and implementation of the EU AI Act uncannily coincided. These two factors have catalyzed an AI renaissance within many enterprises. Yes, companies were already applying AI here and there across their organizations — but responding to the impact of these two exogenous forces required a whole new way of thinking and doing. All of a sudden, all eyes were on AI.

When it comes to leveraging AI to capture business value, it’s worth asking, “what kind of AI do we need exactly?” There are significant differences between the methodologies collectively referred to as AI. While 2024 might have almost convinced us that gen AI is the end-all-be-all, there is also what’s sometimes called ‘traditional’ AI, deep learning, and much more.

AI is proving that it’s here to stay. While 2023 brought wonder and 2024 saw widespread experimentation, 2025 will be the year that healthcare and life sciences get serious about AI's applications. But it’s complicated: AI proofs of concept are graduating from the sandbox to production, just as some of AI’s biggest cheerleaders are turning a bit dour.

As generative AI continues its unprecedented surge in popularity, we are already seeing it evolve into the next generation of machine learning-driven technologies: agentic AI. With agentic AI, we are not just prompting models and receiving an answer in a simple one-step process. The AI is engaging in complex multi-step processes, often interacting with different systems to achieve a desired outcome.

According to a report by Verified Market Research, the Artificial Intelligence software development market will reach USD 2740.46 billion by 2031. AI has seamlessly integrated into the Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC), becoming a crucial tool for developers. By blending human creativity with AI, developers can achieve more ingenious and efficient outcomes.

For years, companies have operated under the prevailing notion that AI is reserved only for the corporate giants — the ones with the resources to make it work for them. But as technology speeds forward, organizations of all sizes are realizing that generative AI isn’t just aspirational; it’s accessible and applicable now.

AI is here to stay. While 2023 brought wonder and 2024 ushered in widespread experimentation, 2025 will mark the year that retailers get serious about AI's real-world applications. But it’s complicated: AI proofs of concept are graduating from the sandbox to production even as major AI innovators face competition from newer upstarts. At this point, the pace of AI evolution is outstripping the news cycle.

The market for artificial intelligence (AI) stood at $184 billion in 2024 and is expected to more than quadruple in the next six years. While these expectations are astonishing, AI experts think they’re conservative, to say the least, and the actual market value would be considerably bigger. Large language models (LLMs) like GPT 3 have ushered in the age of AI. They’re finding applications as varied as complex scientific research and writing lyrics for rap battles.

One of the software industry’s most important pain points in testing is “Coverage”. It is manually impossible to generate test cases while covering edge cases and different scenarios with the scale of how much code gets written each day. AI Agents here save time and improve test coverage and reliability. Developers can now focus on core logic while AI handles repetitive and error-prone tasks like writing unit tests.