No one can deny the impact that AI is having on software development … and we are just getting started. Generative AI (genAI) has already made a tremendous splash, and new AI agent technologies hold promise. These will take AI-enhanced development to a new level and deliver complete, autonomous capabilities for creating, testing, and delivering applications. There’s just too much innovation happening all at once to be casually monitoring this market — I need to be all in.
That’s why, starting now, I’ll be devoting a significant amount of time to researching genAI and AI agents — specifically their impact on the software development lifecycle. This is an area of research that Forrester refers to as TuringBots. I will be partnering with multiple Forrester colleagues, chiefly VP and principal analyst Diego Lo Giudice, who has already laid the groundwork for how TuringBots will revolutionize software engineering with a series of reports such as The State Of TuringBots and The Future Of TuringBots.
What’s next: Diego and I will participate in a joint TuringBot Landscape that addresses the coding part of the software development lifecycle. In this Landscape, we will be conducting research to uncover the core and extended use cases for coding TuringBots, as well as their core functional capabilities. This is scheduled for Q4 2025.
I will be reaching out to vendors of autonomous coding solutions in the coming months. Other vendors are encouraged to brief me on their product offerings related to coding or additional areas where they are investing in AI capabilities, such as planning, backlog management, and testing.
Clients are welcome to reach out and request inquiry or guidance sessions to understand how this research will benefit them.
