The 4 Patterns of AI Native Development — AI Engineer Summit Edition

A framework of four patterns that describe how AI is fundamentally transforming the developer role beyond simple code completion. As AI technology has progressed from basic LLM prompts through RAG, function calling (MCP), and into agentic workflows, we are moving from &ldquo;sprinkling AI on top&rdquo; toward a genuinely AI-native way of working — one that reshapes the tasks developers perform day…