Software Delivery Excellence in the age of AI: A Fireside Chat with Martin Odersky and Hans Dockter
What does it mean to be truly productive as a developer in the modern JVM ecosystem? In this candid fireside chat, Scala creator Martin Odersky and Gradle founder Hans Dockter sit down with Trisha Gee, Java Champion, to unpack the evolving landscape of developer productivity.
As AI-generated code becomes more prevalent, developers face new challenges: larger codebases, longer build times, and a growing gap between code and comprehension. What happens when code is technically correct but semantically opaque? How do we maintain quality, readability, and speed in a world of auto-generated tests and AI-assisted pipelines?
From build tooling to language design, this session explores how we can stay productive—and sane—as the JVM world absorbs this new wave of complexity. Bring your questions and join a timely conversation with the creators shaping the tools you use every day.
- What are your observations regarding the effect of Gen AI on codebase quality, security, understandability?
- What are your predictions on the impact of Gen AI on software delivery pipelines?
- What are the backstories behind Gradle and Scala-what was the original goal of creating these technologies, and how has that changed over the last decade plus?
- How is AI poised to influence the design of Scala as a language and its focus on software quality, scalability and developer productivity?
- How is AI poised to influence Gradle's products and their commitment to developer productivity, toolchain observability and software delivery excellence?
- As new tooling and Gen AI begin to replace people for certain software development and delivery tasks, what are the skills that humans will need to sharpen to be productive and useful in the future?
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